Hanly v. Blackford

delivered tlie Opinion of the Court.

ÍN the year 1800, Benjamin Blackford bought from William Conner, ten acres of land, described in the bond, 7 . . . . of that date, for a title, “ as adjoining him (Blackford) on the north,” without any other designation of boundary or locality. But, ten acres were “ laid off” to him, bounded on the north by the land on which he lived, and on the west by the road from Nicholasville to Lexington ; and of the whole of which he retained the possession and exclusive use from 1800 to sometime in 1828, when John H. Hanly enclosed a part of it, which he claims…