Norwood v. . Crawford
Supreme Court of North Carolina
SPECIAL PROCEEDING for the establishment of boundary lines under ch. 22, Acts of 1893, heard before Brown, J., at Fall Term, 1893, of OraNGE Superior Court. The surveyor appointed by the Clerk of the Court, after the filing of the petition and answer, made his survey and reported as follows: ■Hillsboro.
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SPECIAL PROCEEDING for the establishment of boundary lines under ch. 22, Acts of 1893, heard before Brown, J., at Fall Term, 1893, of OraNGE Superior Court. The surveyor appointed by the Clerk of the Court, after the filing of the petition and answer, made his survey and reported as follows: ■Hillsboro. “Direct survey of the Norwood tract: Lots Eos. 3 and 4, beginning at poplar on pond, thence south thirteen degrees west four chains and seventy-eight links, and up branch as indicated by black lines, ending at E, one chain and fifty links beyond stone; thence dropping back to stone and running…
1Opinion of the Court
AvnKY, J.:
PicARSON, Chief Justice, referring to the case of Harry v. Graham, 1 Dev. & Bat., 77, said, in delivering the opinion in Safret v. Hartman, 7 Jones, 203: “It is decided in that case that a posterior line could not be reversed in order by its intersection with the prior line to show the corners unless such posterior line was certain, because to do so would be to extend the'distance of the prior by the course of the posterior line. The chance of mistake resting on the one or the other being equal, it was deemed proper to follow the order in which the survey was made.” If the…
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