Passage v. McVeigh
Supreme Court of New Jersey
This was an action of trespass by Passage against McVeigh, to which the defendant had pleaded title, and this was the only question. The cause was tried at the Mercer circuit, before Justice Randolph. The loous in quo was along the line between the parties, who owned adjoining tracts; each claimed it as part of his tract. The plaintiff claimed by deed, dated May 1, 1844, from S., who then owned both tracts.
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This was an action of trespass by Passage against McVeigh, to which the defendant had pleaded title, and this was the only question. The cause was tried at the Mercer circuit, before Justice Randolph. The loous in quo was along the line between the parties, who owned adjoining tracts; each claimed it as part of his tract. The plaintiff claimed by deed, dated May 1, 1844, from S., who then owned both tracts. This deed described her lot as beginning at the N. E. corner of lot of H., and then running S. 23° E. along line of H., 7 chains 35 links, to land of M.; thence along land of M. one chain;…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the court by the Chief Justice.
The errors assigned in this cause are founded on a bill of exceptions. The only exception contained in the bill is, “ to all that part of the charge which stated that any of the-matters in controversy in regard to the lines or boundaries or location of the land in dispute were matters of law, and not left to the jury.” The ground of reversal, if any there be, must be found within that exception ; this court cannot look beyond it. Sitting as a court of law, this court reviews only errors of law, and such errors' only, committed upon the trial, as are…
2Cited by1 opinion
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