Hough v. . Horne

As to the second trespass, the plaintiff offered in evidence a grant to himself, dated in 1800, which lapped over and covered a part of the defendant's tract of land on the north. To present the question arising on this part of the case it is only necessary to give one call of the grant to Kirby, dated in 1792, under which the defendant claimed, to wit; the course from a black jack corner, on the side of the public road; then with the public road N. 80 degrees W. 100 chains to a black jack corner the side of said road in Hezekiah Hough's line, then with his (371) line, etc. These two black…