Cronin v. Gore

Gore brought ejectment and recovered a strip of land forty-four and a half feet wide, as-included in a grant to himself of a tract of four acres, which by a surveyor’s error had been laid out that much narrower than was correct.

The proof showed a purchase by Gore of David Stewart in November, 1865, of four acres, described as follows: “Beginning at the southwest corner of said west half of the southeast quarter of section twenty (20), running thence north on the quarter line to south line of land owned and occupied by the Detroit & Milwaukee Bail-road Company, thence easterly along the south…