Bodley v. Hernden

Judge Mills

delivered the opinion.

Bodley having obtained a decree in the court below, sustaining his entry, a survey was directed on the return of the report, by which the interference was shewn, the question arose between the true and magnetic meridian, or rather between his old line and the present direction of the magnet. The entry of Bodley calls to run from his beginning north, twelve hundred and sixty-four poles and nine-tenths of a pole, and thence east, twenty-five hundred and twenty nine poles and eight-tenths. This line, running cast, produces the interference with the defendants, a…