Harrah v. Conley

This was a petition presented at the December term, 1873, of the circuit court of Jasper county, under an act to provide for the permanent survey of lands, approved March 25,1869, for the purpose of obtaining the appointment of a commission of three surveyors to permanently locate a certain section corner, which was alleged in the petition to be in dispute.

Upon the filing of the petition, three of the defendants, who had been notified, appeared and put in an answer, in which they expressly denied that the section corner was in dispute, but set up that the same had been duly and properly…