Tally v. McInnis

Citations

• 100 Miss. 59
• 56 So. 313

Syllabus

<p>1. Dedication. Description of land.</p> <p>A deed describing the land conveyed as “part of lot 4 in block 164 of the Crittenden survey of the town of Hattiesburg, perry county, Mississippi, and more particularly described as follows, to-wit: Commencing at the northeast corner of lot 4 and running in a northwesterly direction thirty-five feet; thence southeast eighty feet; thence north to the point of beginning, is void for uncertainty in description.</p> <p>2. Same.</p> <p>From such a description it is impossible to ascertain what part of the lot was intended to be conveyed.</p>