Lodge's Lessee v. Lee

Syllabus

A grant of an island by name, in the Potomac river, super adding the courses and distances of the lines thereof, which on resurvey are now found to exclude part of teh island, will pass the whole island.

EJECTMENT by Lodge against Lee, for part of an island in the Potomac river, called Eden, but now generally called Lee’s island.

The plaintiff’s lessor had taken' up the land in the year 1804, as vacant, supposing that the defendant’s claim must be bounded by the course and distance, allowing one degree or variation for every 20 years since the certificate of survey was made under which the defendant claims.

The defendant claimed under a patent from the lord proprietor of Maryland, dated in 1723, which granted to Thomas Li-e “ all that tract or upper island of land, called Eden, lying and being in Prince George

county, beginning aj¡ a bounded maple, near ten miles above the second falls, and opposite to a large run' on the Virginia side called Hickoi y run, and standing upon a point at the foot of the said island, and running thence north sixty degrees, west sixty perches,” (&c. See. giving the course and distance of every line to the • beginning tree,)' “ containing and laid out for 320 acres of land, more or less.”