Shrieve v. Summers

J udge Underwood

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This is a controversy relative to the position of the true boundary line between two adjoining surveys and patents. Southall’s is the elder grant ; and Summers, the lessor of the plaintiff, who succeeded in, the action of ejectment, claims under it. Bramlett’s grant, junior in date, and under which Shrieve claims, calls to adjoin Southall., , _ 1 he proof is, that Southall, by his tenants, took possession of his tract, obviously with the intention to hold to the full extent of its limits, before there was any improvement made by Bramlett, or…