Case Name: John Dougherty's Lessee against Samuel Denny
Court: General Court of Maryland
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Decision Date: 1796-04
Citations: 3 Md. 430
Docket Number: 
Parties: John Dougherty’s Lessee against Samuel Denny.
Judges: 
Reporter: Maryland reports, being a series of the most important law cases argued and determined in the Provincial Court and Court of Appeals of the then province of Maryland, from the year 1700 [i.e. 1658] down to the [end of 1799]
Volume: 3
Pages: 430–430

Head Matter:
GENERAL COURT,
APRIL TERM, 1796.
(EASTERN SHORE.)
John Dougherty’s Lessee against Samuel Denny.
EJECTMENT. In this case it appeared the plaintiff’s land had been laid out to him some years ago, as the needle then pointed.
Hammond, for the plaintiff,

Opinion:
The Court.
In locating his land in this suit, the plaintiff is bound to run the lines in the manner the land had been laid out to him.
The plaintiff was nonprossed.