Case Name: GRAVES v. HYATT
Court: Tennessee Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Tennessee
Decision Date: 1858-09
Citations: 1 Shan. Cas. 84
Docket Number: 
Parties: GRAVES v. HYATT.
Judges: 
Reporter: Tennessee Cases with Notes and Annotations
Volume: 1
Pages: 84–84

Head Matter:
GRAVES v. HYATT.
(S. C., Thomp. Cas., 141-142.)
Knoxville,
September Term, 1858.
Purchaser of land not released for immaterial misdescription.
Where the description of a lot sold is sufficiently certain without the number, the mere clerical error in its number by which no one is misled, is no ground for releasing- the purchaser from his contract; but it is proper for the court to correct the error by a subsequent order.

Opinion:
McKinney, J.,
delivered the opinion, of the court:
There is no ground shown for discharging the petitioner from his purchase. The mere clerical error in the number of the lot sold is of no importance. The lot actually sold and purchased by the petitioner was the same lot intended to be sold. The purchaser, got the property he intended to purchase. The error in the number of the lot misled no one. It might well have been rejected as surplusage, as the description of the lot was sufficiently certain without it. Though in correcting the error in this respect by a subsequent order, the chancellor acted properly.
Decree affirmed.