Case Name: Lord v. Wentworth
Court: New Hampshire Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Hampshire
Decision Date: 1895-12
Citations: 68 N.H. 610
Docket Number: 
Parties: Lord v. Wentworth.
Judges: Chase, J., did not sit.
Reporter: New Hampshire Reports
Volume: 68
Pages: 610–610

Head Matter:
Carroll,
Dec., 1895.
Lord v. Wentworth.
Josiah H. Hobbs, for the plaintiff.
John B. Nash, for the defendant.

Opinion:
Trespass, guare clausum. March 11, .1875, Nathaniel.Willey owned a large rectangular lot of land bounded westerly by the "old road" and southerly by the " new road." In the corner formed by the junction of the two roads was a nearly square tract of about four acres called the Webster homestead, bounded westerly twenty-five rods on the " old road " and southerly twenty-six rods on the " new road." On that day he conveyed to Mary Webster a tract of land bounded and described as follows: " Commencing at the junction of the two roads, thence running northerly on the old road about eighteen rods to a large stone opposite to my barn; thence easterly, parallel with the fence between my pasture and the Webster homestead, to a point far enough east to contain eight acres between said fence and the new road; thence southerly to the new road; and thence westerly on the new road to the bound begun at; meaning to convey the former homestead of the late Horace Webster." The plaintiff excepted to the ruling that the deed conveyed to Mary the eight-acre tract and not merely the Webster homestead, and the exception was overruled.
Chase, J., did not sit.