Lagow v. Glover

STAYTON, Chief Justice.

—Appellants, the children of Thomas Lagow, seek in this action to recover a strip of land which they claim is a part of a league and labor granted to their ancestor in December, 1841.

According to the patent the southeast line of that grant runs north 45 degree east, and there seems to be but little if any ground for belief that the line was not thus originally established; nor does there seem to be controversy as to the point at which the southern corner on that line is to be found.

Thomas Lagow seems to have died as early as 1845, and it is claimed that he died testate,…