O'Flaherty v. Kellogg

This was an ejectment to recover 4½ feet of ground fronting on. Third street, and tying south of Poplar street, and the plaintiffs under instructions from the court had a verdict and judgment.

To understand the point in controversy, it "is sufficient to state that one Baccane had a Spanish grant of 120 by 150 feet, French measure, fronting on Third street, which was confirmed by the United States, but upon a survey of this confirmation by the United States surveyor, instead of being 120 feet French, (which would be 128 ¿ English) there were only 121 1 feet English, bounded north by Poplar…