Ipock v. . Gaskins

This proceeding was brought for the purpose of processioning the lands of the parties, who are adjoining proprietors, and of ascertaining and declaring where is the dividing line between them. The case, in one view of it, turns upon the true location of the line which is first called for in the deeds, under which the plaintiff claims as color of title. The plaintiff introduced and read in evidence a grant from the State to Samuel Lawson for 200 acres of land, and offered evidence to prove that it covered the land in controversy, but there was no evidence connecting his deeds with this grant,…