Buchanan's Lessee v. Steuart
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Baltimore County Court. This was an action of ejectment for all that part of a lot of ground situate in the city of Baltimore, being part of a lot of ground distinguished on the plot thereof by the number 25, beginning for the said part at the end of 115 feet from the S W corner ot Conawago and Charles-streets, where they intersect each other, and running thence, binding on Charles-street 97 feet to Mushberger's line, thence westerly 150 feet 6 inches, more or…
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Appeal from Baltimore County Court. This was an action of ejectment for all that part of a lot of ground situate in the city of Baltimore, being part of a lot of ground distinguished on the plot thereof by the number 25, beginning for the said part at the end of 115 feet from the S W corner ot Conawago and Charles-streets, where they intersect each other, and running thence, binding on Charles-street 97 feet to Mushberger's line, thence westerly 150 feet 6 inches, more or less, ^-Liberty, or 10 feet lane, thence N Easterly, binding on said Liberty or 10 feet lane S6 feet, and thence with a…
1Opinion of the Court
Chase, Ch, J.
delivered the opinion of the court, The question in this case arises on the legal effect and opera- . tion of the deed from Eleanor Crox(dl and Thomas Gütings, to Biehardson St mart, the defendant below, as to the quantity of the land conveyed by it to Steuart. In deciding- this question; the court must be governed by those rules and principles of the law, which have been established by t]ie courts of justice, and resorted tp by them in expounding deeds.
It is truc, and has beep conceded, that there are no technical or precise form of words appropriated by law, as exclusively or…
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