Woods v. Johnson
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal.from' Oregon Circuit Court. — Ho». W. N. Evans, Judge. (1) The order of applying description of boundaries is: First, to natural objects; second, to artificial marks; third, to courses and distances given in the deed.
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Appeal.from' Oregon Circuit Court. — Ho». W. N. Evans, Judge. (1) The order of applying description of boundaries is: First, to natural objects; second, to artificial marks; third, to courses and distances given in the deed. Whitehead v. Ragan, 106 Mo. 236. (2) In establishing section lines, the witness of trees and monuments of the original surveys made by the United States government, no matter how inaccurate they may he, control over more recent surveys, though the latter may clearly show that the former were grossly erroneous. Mayor of Liberty v. Burns, 114 Mo. 430. (3) Known and fixed…
1Opinion of the CourtGraves, P. J.
Action in ejectment for a small triangular strip of ground, embracing about ten acres in section 23, township 23 north, range 3 west, in Oregon county. The petition thus describes^ the disputed strip:
“A strip on the north side thereof being a strip described as follows, to-wit: Beginning at a point about 100 yards south of the northeast corner of said section 23, running west on a direct line to the northwest corner of the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of said section 23, thence east along the north side of said section to the northeast comer of said section 23, thence south to…
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