Pennington v. Bordley
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Cecil County Court. Ejectment for a tract of land called Painter’s Best. The defendant in the court below, (the present appellant,) took defence upon warrant, and plots were made.
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Appeal from Cecil County Court. Ejectment for a tract of land called Painter’s Best. The defendant in the court below, (the present appellant,) took defence upon warrant, and plots were made. At the trial the plaintiff offered in evidence the plots in the cause, and the survey- or’s explanations of the same, and gave in evidence the certificate of survey of the tract of land called Painter’s Aesi, made for Nicholas Painter, on the 10th of Nov. 1677, and describing the land as “lying on the east side of Chesa-Bay,'and on the north side of a river called Sassa-fras R'ver, beginning at a marked…
1Opinion of the Court
Chase, Ch. J.
The question in this case depends on what is the true location of the tract of land called Painter’s Rest, resurveyed in 1678. There can be no doubt about the true construction of the grant of that land; and the position of it must depend on the finding of the jury as to the place where the third boundary, the red oak called for, stood. If at black E, then the N E line will terminate at red V, if at black B, then the N E line will end at black C.
I consider the end of the N E line of Painter’s Rest, the beginning of Heath’s Range, the first part.
The grant of Heath’s Range contains…
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