Doe on the Demise of Dobson v. Finley
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was an action of ejectment, tried before Osborne, J.., at the Ball Term, 1860, of McDowell Superior Court. The lessor claimed title as the heir-at-law of one Dobson, and exhibited a grant to his ancestor, bearing date 18th December, 1799. The controversy was as to the location of the grant.
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This was an action of ejectment, tried before Osborne, J.., at the Ball Term, 1860, of McDowell Superior Court. The lessor claimed title as the heir-at-law of one Dobson, and exhibited a grant to his ancestor, bearing date 18th December, 1799. The controversy was as to the location of the grant. It called for two pines on Beard’s line on the south sidé of a hill, and running west one hundred and sixty (160) poles to a pine, Thomas Young’s old corner; thence south crossing the maple swamp branch, 100 poles to a white-; thence east 160 poles to a pine, Templeton’s corner; thence north, to the…
1Opinion of the CourtPearson, C. J.
We concur in the opinion with his Honor in the Court below, upon all the points, which are presented in the statement of the case.
1. Supposing the pine to be established as the second corner, could the first, a beginning corner, be located by reversing the course and measuring the distance called for, from the pine back, that is, on the reversed course. His Honor ruled that the beginning corner could be fixed in this way: we agree with him. If the second corner is fixed, it is clear, to mathematical certainty, that by reversing the course and measuring the distance, you reach the first…
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