Deery v. Cray
Supreme Court of the United States
Error .to the Circuit Court for the District of Maryland.* Eliza Deery brought ejectment October 12, 1863, in the court just mentioned, to recover from one Cray an undivided fifth part of .the southern half of Kent Fort Manor, an ancient manor in Kent .County, Maryland. This manor was an irregularly shaped piece of land', whose longest direction is- mainly north and south, surrounded entirely by water except on the northern line, which crosses a rather narrow neck of land.
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Error .to the Circuit Court for the District of Maryland.* Eliza Deery brought ejectment October 12, 1863, in the court just mentioned, to recover from one Cray an undivided fifth part of .the southern half of Kent Fort Manor, an ancient manor in Kent .County, Maryland. This manor was an irregularly shaped piece of land', whose longest direction is- mainly north and south, surrounded entirely by water except on the northern line, which crosses a rather narrow neck of land. The diagram illustrates roughly, and without various indentations from the waters which run up into the body of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
The objection to the' deed of 1787, from Samuel Lloyd Chew to his mother, Elizabeth Chew, is, that the description of the land conveyed is so uncertain as to render the deed void.
The plaintiff excepted to the introduction of this deed, unless the plat therein referred to as made by Brown was produced and its lines shown; but the court permitted the deed to be read, subject to the right of the plaintiff to exclude the same hereafter, if upon the closing of the testimony it should not have been legally and sufficiently applied by defendants to the maintenance of the issue on their part.
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