Case Name: Tasker v. Cilley
Court: New Hampshire Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Hampshire
Decision Date: 1880-06
Citations: 59 N.H. 575
Docket Number: 
Parties: Tasker v. Cilley.
Judges: Foster and Allen, JJ., did not sit: the others concurred.
Reporter: New Hampshire Reports
Volume: 59
Pages: 575–575

Head Matter:
Tasker v. Cilley.
The location on the ground of boundaries described in a deed is a question of fact.
Trespass, quare clausum. Plea, the general issue, with a brief statement of soil and freehold. Facts 'found by a referee. The deeds through which the plaintiff derived his title described his land as bounded in part by a line running easterly to Strafford, thence southerly to the corner of a lot, thence westerly to the south-west corner of Samuel and Reuben Brown’s land. The defendant claimed that the junction of the plaintiff’s east line with a fence on the north side of the disputed territory was the point referred to in the description as the southerly corner of a lot. The referee found that the land in controversy belonged to the plaintiff.
A. F. L. Norris, for the defendant.
Whittemore, Jr., and Chase $ Streeter, for the plaintiff.

Opinion:
Bingham, J.
The location on the ground of the boundaries described in the deeds was a question of fact for the determination of the referee. Madden v. Tucker, 46 Me. 367; Abbott v. Abbott, 51 Me. 575; Tebbetts v. Estes, 52 Me. 566; Williston v. Morse, 10 Met. 17, 27.
Judgment for the plaintiff.
Foster and Allen, JJ., did not sit: the others concurred.