Thornberry v. Churchill

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Bibb.

The jury having rendered a verdict for Churchill and Wife, the lessors of the plaintiff in ejectment, by specified boundaries, the defendant, Thornberry, urged for causes of a new trial, that the jury had found against evidence, and that the court had misdirected the jury; which motion was overruled, and Thornberry has appealed.

The lessors of the plaintiff claims, by grant to them, bearing date in 1810, founded upon a survey of 254 acres, for Wm. Oldham, bearing date in October 1788—the abuttals of which are thus described:

Boundaries of plaintiff's…