Giraud's Lessee v. Hughes
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Baltimore County Court. Ejectment for a tract of land called Augustus’s Discovery Resurveyed. The defendants (now appellees), took defence on warrant, and plots were returned. Not guilty was pleaded and issue joined. The plaintiff made claim and pretension for all that tract or parcel of land, called Augustus’s Discovery Resurveyed, as located on the plots.
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Appeal from Baltimore County Court. Ejectment for a tract of land called Augustus’s Discovery Resurveyed. The defendants (now appellees), took defence on warrant, and plots were returned. Not guilty was pleaded and issue joined. The plaintiff made claim and pretension for all that tract or parcel of land, called Augustus’s Discovery Resurveyed, as located on the plots. The defence was taken under the patent of a tract of land, called Gist’s Inspection, and for certain land lying between the 9th and 10th lines of said tract, as originally surveyed, and the present shores of the river Patapsco,…
1Opinion of the CourtStephen, J.
This action was instituted in Baltimore County Court, to recover a parcel of land called Augustus's Discovery Resurveyed, which was patented to John James Giraud, as vacant land, and whether it was vacant or not at the time he caused it to be resurveyed, is the question now to be determined, and in order to ascertain this question it becomes necessary to decide what was the true location of Gist's Inspection, patented to Richard Gist, on the 9th of July, in the year 1732, that is, not how it was originally located, but what was its true position at the time of Augustus's Discovery, and the…
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