Whitcomb v. Dutton’s Empirical Analysis

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1 district · 1 state decisions

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1. ““If the locations of these monuments could be established and they indicated a line varying from the one described by course, the monuments would control, the course must yield; but if the monuments cannot be found or their locations established, then resort must be had to the course as the only other description of the boundary given in the charters. The identity of these monuments, and the places where they were originally located, being in dispute, were questions of fact for the jury.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wentworth v. La Porte