Smith v. Boone

STAYTON, Chief Justice.

— A grant of two leagues of school land made to Falls County is situated south of and contiguous to a grant made to James Carter, through whom appellee owns the southern part of the latter grant, but he has no paper title to any part of the grant made to Falls County.

Falls County caused the grant to it to be surveyed and subdivided into small tracts, and in doing this it appears that the surveyor established and marked as the north line of the grant to the county a line south of the true north line about 186 varas.

Appellant bought one of the subdivisions of the grant…