Case Name: Harramond versus M'Glaughon
Court: North Carolina Superior Court
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Decision Date: 1798-10
Citations: 1 Tay. 136
Docket Number: 
Parties: Harramond versus M‘Glaughon.
Judges: 
Reporter: North Carolina Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 136–136

Head Matter:
Harramond versus M‘Glaughon.
Natural boundaries ought to be regarded in preference to artificial ones.
EJECTMENT. The plaintiff’s grant which was issued by the state in 1787, decribed a tract bounded by the river on one side, and thence from the river, so as to include a tract, supposed to have been left out of the patent, hereafter mentioned.
The defendant claimed under a patent issued fifty years ago, beginning at a hickory, standing not far from the river, thence down the river a certain course and distance. The course ran obliquely from the river, leaving between it and the river the triangular piece of land now sued for.

Opinion:
By
The Court.
When a deed, patent or grant, describes a boundary from a certain point down a river, creek, or the like, mentioning also course and distance; should the latter be found not to agree with the course of the river, creek, &c. it ought to be disregarded, and the river considered the true boundary.
Verdict for the Defendant.