Ramsay v. Butler, Purdum & Co.

The appellant applied to the Commissioner of the Land Office for a patent to a triangular -strip on the southern border of his land in Baltimore County, as a vacancy, and the appellees filed caveats on the ground that it had already been granted by the proprietary, and that there was therefore no vacancy which could be the subject of a new grant. The commissioner held with the caveators-, -and the eaveatee appeals-.

On ¡November 10th, 1695, a patent wa-s issued to Walter Smith for a tract of land named “Bear Heck,” of five hundred acres, lying on the south side of Gunpowder Falls, and…