Lessee of Muhlenburg's Heirs v. Florence
Ohio Supreme Court
This was a motion for a new trial, by the defendant, in an action of ejectment. The case is stat ed in the opinion of the court..
1Opinion of the Court
Judge Hitchcock
delivered the opinion of the court:
Upon the trial of this cause, in the county of Pickaway, it became important to ascertain the upper back corner of Muhlenburg’s survey. In fact, this was the only material question in controversy. On the part of the lessors of the plaintiff, it was insisted that this corner was lost, and they ^sought to establish it by *225running a line from the lower back corner, which was proven the course called for in the patent, until it should intersect the upper line of the survey extended westwardly. The defendant introduced witnesses to prove the corner…
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