Case Name: BRYAN, &c. vs. BECKLEY
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1814-04-28
Citations: 1 Litt. Sel. Cas. 100
Docket Number: 
Parties: BRYAN, &c. vs. BECKLEY.
Judges: Present, Ch. Justice Boyle, Judges Logan and Owsley.
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 16
Pages: 100–101

Head Matter:
BRYAN, &c. vs. BECKLEY.
April 28, 1814
Present, Ch. Justice Boyle, Judges Logan and Owsley.

Opinion:
WE are of opinion, that a correct exposition of the former opinion and decree of this court, requires that Beckley's line, which is designated as running N. 20 E. 460 poles, should be run by making a due allowance for the variation of the magnetic, from the true meridian, from the time the survey was made until the present. This variation is reported by the surveyor to be three degrees and thirty minutes; and, consequently, the course of that line should have been N. 16 1-2 E. according to the present magnetic meridian, instead of N. 20 E. as the court below decreed it should be run.