Blount's Lessee v. Medlin

White, J,

delivered the following opinion of the court. *

The record shows that on the trial of the cause, the plaintiff produced and gave in evidence a grant from the state of North Carolina for one thousand acres of land, and deduced a regular title from the grantees to himself for the land described in said grant. In the grant, the one thousand acres, is thus described ; lying and being in the county of Hawkins and eastern district, the south side of Clinch river, on dry Buffaloe ; beginning at a white oak, Thomas Cox’s corner, and running south forty-five east, five hundred poles, crossing…