Long v. Myers

The opinion of the court was delivered by

West, J.:

The plaintiff sued to recover possession of a strip of land in dispute between himself, as the owner of a forty-acre tract, and the owner of the adjoining forty on the north. The defendant denied this claim and cross-petitioned for a decree quieting his title. Jurors were impaneled and testimony taken, after which the court sustained a demurrer to the evidence of the plaintiff and quieted title to the disputed strip in the defendant. The plaintiff appeals.

George Cosner was the patentee of the quarter section. In 1882, he sold this forty to…