Watts v. Howard

GAINES, Associate Justice.

This suit involves a question of boundary. One Abel Warren, being the owner of the Lee C. Smith original survey, agreed to sell to one A. T. Perkins a tract of 320 acres lying in its northwest corner. The land was surveyed in the shape of a parallelogram extending 950 varas from east to west and 1900 varas from north to south, with corners well marked on the ground by bearing trees. The deed was made to Perkins describing the land according to this survey. It was subsequently ascertained that the surveyor made a mistake as to the true position of the northwest corner…