Little Zion Baptist Church v. Dawson

11 JOHNSON, J.

would grant the writ application for the following reasons.

This Court has previously addressed the issue of which descriptive features commonly used in land grants demand primacy over others when applied to settle a boundary dispute. The boundary description contained in Little Zion’s deed is ambiguous, however, settled case law determines that this Court must look to natural monuments rather than distances to settle boundary disputes when confronted with a property description that results in a discrepancy.

In a boundary dispute, it is the duty of the Court to “ascertain and…