Wood v. Newberry

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• holding that monuments can alter the property line in a deed “where a party has himself a title to land having a certain description, and he afterward, by agreement with an adjoining owner, settles the line between them so as to change that description”
• reasoning that if the parties had set monuments upon a line that they made and upon which they agreed, then the land within that established boundary would be conveyed regardless of the description in the deed

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