Dimmitt v. Lashbrook

Chief Justice*fi,OB£:RTaorr

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

In this case (ejectment,) the only question deemed by this court worthy of special consideration, is, whether, as the appellant contends, the circuit court erred in instructing the jury that, “ where one corner of a survey (having had four corners) is lost, and it cannot be proved where the corner stood, the proper mode of fixing such corner is by pursuing the marked line of the original survey, leading to the place where such corner stood, and also retracing the marked boundary leading from the place where the corner stood, to the…