Legal Opinion

Cowan v. Fauntleroy

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided July 1, 1810Published

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION of die Court, by

Ch. J. Boyle.

This b an appeal from a judgment in ejectment. The parties to the controversy claim under different grants from the commonwealth i their grants however have a common boundary, which is described in both by course and distance only, without reference to any objects, either natural or artificial. The defendants in the court below offered evidence of a line extending part of the distance, but deviating from thwEOurse called for by the grants ; that it had been run and marked in making the original survey of the defendants, in the presence oi James ilarrod,…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Singleton's Devisees v. Lewis' HeirsCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1822

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