Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 152, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1915 — ASH BARREL AND DESK WIN IN BIG LAND SUIT [ARTICLE]

ASH BARREL AND DESK WIN IN BIG LAND SUIT

Eighty- Ysar-Old Records Fix Boundary of Stats Correctly, Says Court. Pittsburgh, Pa.—After twenty years of litigation in the federal and state courts the Supreme Court of the United States has rendered a decision in favor of the Babcock Lumber and Land Company, of this city, giving that corporation full title to 10,100 acres of the finest timber land in Tennessee and North Carolina, said to be worth about 4600,000. Incidentally, in the course of the trying of this case and other suits that resulted from it, the boundary line between the States of North Carolina and Tennessee was established, and although this boundary line was the same as that placed on the many maps circulated between 1821 and the time of the decision, nothing of a documentary nature to prove Its correctness existed during that time. In 1821 the question of the boundary line dividing the two States was brought to the attention of the governors of the commonwealths. A survey was made, a map waa drawn and field notes were written. What became of these nobody had any idea until a few years ago, when the map was found in an ash barrel in the cellar of the State Hoase in Nashville, and shortly afterward the notes wars found in an old dev*, where tney had remained hidden 80 years. The suit was decided on these records