71 Mo. 603 | Mo. | 1880
We think it is clear that in an ejectment suit the land, sued for must be so described that, in the event of a recovery, an officer charged with the execution of a writ- of
We have been cited by plaintiff’s counsel to the case of McPike v. Allman, supra, where all the eases germane to the question here involved, beginning with the case of Hart v. Rector, 7 Mo. 531, are commented upon, as an authority sustaining the action of the trial court. It will, however, be found, upon an examination of that case, that the petition described the premises sued for so as to identify the land. The petition described the land as “eighty, acres off of the south end of the west half of section 31, township 53, range 5.” The description contained in the ■sheriff’s deed offered in support of the title was “ eighty acres part of west half of section 31, township 53, range 5.” The court allowed parol evidence to be introduced to explain the vague description contained in the deed, and to show that it applied to the land sued for. So, if, in the case before us, as in that case, the petition had contained ■such a description of the land as identified it, evidence would have been receivable to have explained the vagueness of the description in the sheriff’s deed to plaintiff. Judgment reversed and cause remanded,