33 Mo. 490
Decided March 15, 1863
Supreme Court of Missouri · decided 1863-03-15
<p>Conveyance — Description.—Where a deed called to commence at a point in. tlie grantor’s northern boundary line, and to run on that a given course and distance ; held, that the true northern line must be taken, although the grantor may have had a survey made on the ground the courses and. distances of -which survey were set forth in the deed, and the northern line of such survey differed entirely from the true northern line of the tract.</p>
Relies on Whittelsey v. Kellogg
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Decided 1863-03-15
Cited by 5 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1898
4 state decisions
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¶1delivered the opinion of the court.
¶2The only question in this case is substantially decided in the case of the same plaintiffs against Kellogg, 28 Mo. 404.
¶3We do not doubt at all that Knox’s northern boundary line, mentioned in his deed to Deaver, was his true northern boundary line, and therefore the deed conveyed the land in dispute, leaving no land at that place which could be conveyed by his deed to Derwart, under which the plaintiffs claim.
¶4Judgment affirmed.