Case Name: LONGWORTH'S LESSEE v. THE BANK OF THE UNITED STATES
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1832-04
Citations: 1 Wright 51
Docket Number: 
Parties: LONGWORTH’S LESSEE v. THE BANK OF THE UNITED STATES.
Judges: JUDGES — HITCHCOCK AND WRIGHT.
Reporter: Reports of cases at law and in chancery, decided by the Supreme court of Ohio, during the years 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834.
Volume: 1
Pages: 51–51

Head Matter:
*HAMILTON COUNTY,
APRIL TERM, 1832.
JUDGES — HITCHCOCK AND WRIGHT.
LONGWORTH’S LESSEE v. THE BANK OF THE UNITED STATES.
Ejectment — vague description — parol explanation.
A deed for thirty acres of land, in sec. 12, or in sec. 7, or a part in loth, being an undivided thirty acres of a tract of seventy acres, is vague, and conveys no title.
Such a deed is incapable of explanation by parol.
Ejectment for thirty acres of land. The parties admitted that both claimed under D. Symmes.
The plaintiff offered in evidence, an administrator’s deed, made in pursuance of an order of sale in the Court of Common Pleas, in 1821, conveying thirty acres in fractional sec. 12, of the 4th township, and 1st range, or a fractional sec. 7, of the 3d township, and 1st range, or a part in both, being an undivided thirty acres of a tract of seventy acres.
Caswell and Starr, for defendants,
objected to this deed as void, for uncertainty.
V. Worthington, contra.

Opinion:
BY THE COURT.
The deed is totally vague and uncertain upon its face, and is therefore inadmissible in evidence; and we think it not susceptible of explanation, as the defect is patent.
[See s. c. 6 O. 536.]