Von Herff v. . Richardson

The controversy on trial narrowed itself principally to a contest over the location of the beginning point in the description of the lands conveyed by deed from H. A. Bland and J. E. Buchan to J. T. Patrick, which said deed forms a link in the defendants’ paper-chain of title. The pertinent parts of the description contained in this deed are as follows:

“Beginning at a stake in the right of way of the R. and A. A. L. R. R., in Moore County, near Shaw’s Ridge and on the southwest end of a curve and runs thencd5 (here follows a particular description by metes and bounds), containing 532 acres,…