Jordan v. Deaton

On different occasions from about the beginning of 1851, till in 1854, Deaton, the appellee, is shown to have pointed out and spoken of the Browning line to Jordan, as the established line between sections eighteen and nineteen, in township six south, of range twenty-two west. Deaton owned the southwest quarter of section eighteen, and Jordan had bought and was living on an improvement that approached to the Browning lino, but which was thought by Deaton and by others to be on section nineteen. After these assurances to Jordan, relying upon the information, he erected a dwelling house and out…