Brown v. McCaffrey

Murray, A. R. J.

This is a plea of land. It was heard by a referee, who dismissed it and entered judgment for the defendant. Objections were filed to the acceptance of the report and, on its being accepted, exceptions were allowed.

The dispute between the parties is as to the line dividing their lots, the plaintiff being the owner of the west lot, No. 28, and the defendant the east lot, No. 26.

In the year 1855 a plot of land composed of both these lots was owned by Ephraim Ballard who, February 15, 1855, conveyed to the defendant’s predecessors in title the east lot No. 26. The material portion…