Brown v. Parish

Olivér Brown, the appellant, owning a tract of land near Versailles, and on each side of the road leading to Lexington, sold, on the 19th of March, 1831, to James Parish, a triangular piece, detached by the road from the residue of the tract and adjoining the land of Parish; and, in April of the same year, conveyed the legal title, by a deed reciting the payment of the consideration— *7three hundred dollars — describing the boundaries by-courses and distances, and designating the land, without any allusion to quantity, “ as being the piece of land known by the name of Brown’s Cut Mine-pence, be…