Holland v. Thompson

HUNTER, Associate Justice.

Appellee sued appellant in the District Court to recover a strip of land 1020 varas long east and west, by 400 varas wide north and south, containing about seventy-two acres, being part of section number 20 of the M. E. P. & P. Railroad surveys in Clay County, which section was located in 1861, on the north and west sides of the northwest corner of the Montague County school lands, and its south and east lines call to run with the north and west lines of said school land.

The field notes of number 20 as patented are as follows: “Beginning on the southeast corner of…