Hillside Cotton Mills v. Bartley

Pee Curiam.

1. Where a tract of land is subdivided and -is subsequently found to contain either more or less than the aggregate amount called for in the surveys of the tracts within it, the proper course is to apportion the excess or deficiency among the several tracts. 9 C. J. 295, § 360, and eases cited.

2. But where there is a shortage in the actual land subdivided, and platted into lots and blocks with intervening streets, each block should, if possible, be treated as distinct, and the shortage therein should be distributed among the lot owners, except so far' as possession has fixed the…