Friend v. Friend
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Garrett County. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court. Exception. — At the trial the plaintiffs offered eight prayers as follows : 1. That if the jury find from the evidence in the cause that the patent for the tract of land called “ Kensington ” was issued, and that the several deeds offered in evidence by the plaintiffs were executed by the grantors therein and delivered, and that the will of Elijah Friend offered in evidence was…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Garrett County. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court. Exception. — At the trial the plaintiffs offered eight prayers as follows : 1. That if the jury find from the evidence in the cause that the patent for the tract of land called “ Kensington ” was issued, and that the several deeds offered in evidence by the plaintiffs were executed by the grantors therein and delivered, and that the will of Elijah Friend offered in evidence was executed by him, and that the plaintiffs, and those under whom they claim, have been in continuous, exclusive,…
1Opinion of the CourtAlvey, C. J.
This is an action of trespass quare clausum, fregit, brought by the appellants, against the appellee. The claim and pretension of the respective parties made the case turn exclusively upon the correct location of the division line between the land of the plaintiffs on the one side and that of the defendant on the other. A warrant of resurvey was executed, and the result was the return into Court of a very extensive plat of diversified locations,- some made by actual survey on the ground, and others simply by protraction on the plat by course and distance, according to scale.
The locus in quo…
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