Garner v. Norris' Lessee

Opinion of the court delivered by

Judge Whyte.

The facts of this case, as far as I consider them necessary to he stated to ground the decision on, are these. A grant issued from the state of North Carolina in the year 1794, to Norris, for 1280 acres of land, lying in the Middle District, on the north side of Elk river, beginning one quarter of a mile above the mouth of Norris’ creek, at an Ash tree on a bluff of the river, thence north 452i poles to a stake, thence west 452i poles to a stake, thence south the same, &c. In September, 1806, Norris, the grantee, took one Edmiston to an ash tree on…