Johnston v. Irwin

Tilghman C. J.

Matthew Irwin, the plaintiff below,

claims, under an improvement made by James Anderson, in the year 1772. On the 16th June, 1786, Irwin took out a warrant for 150 acres of land, including Anderson’s improvement, and in February, 1787, a survey of 171 acres, was made for him, adjoining Peter Homing’s land, (which is now the property of the defendant.) On the 25th January, 1788, .the plaintiff obtained a patent on this survey. In the patent, he is bounded by Homing’s land, but in mentioning the courses and distances there is supposed to have been an error, which would leave a…