Den Ex Dem. Harry v. Graham
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Ejectment-, tried before his honour Judge Martin, at Lincoln on the last Circuit. The principal question in the cause was one of boundary, arising upon a grant to John Graham, the ancestor of the defendants.
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Ejectment-, tried before his honour Judge Martin, at Lincoln on the last Circuit. The principal question in the cause was one of boundary, arising upon a grant to John Graham, the ancestor of the defendants. It described the land as a tract of three hundred acres “ adjoining the lands of A. Collins, L. Beard, and of Graham himself, and beginning at a post oak, Beard’s corner, and running thence with his line S. 45° West, two hundred and twenty poles, to a chestnut and red oak, Beard’s corner; thence N. 45° West, two hundred and twenty poles to a Hack oak near his own line, thence N. 45° East,…
1Opinion of the Court
Ruffin, Chief Justice.
— The question o'f boundary arises upon the patent to John Graham, dated the 24th November, 1813. The dispute is, how far the second line, which runs from the chestnut and red oak, shall go. The Court held that it stopped at the end of the distance; while for the defendant it is contended, that it shall be extended thirty poles further, so as to make it reach the line of another tract of the patentee; or, at all events, until it intersects with the next line reversed, from the post oak called for as the corner of Beard and the patentee, that, corner being identified.…
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