Spillers v. Jordan

The plot in controversy is a narrow strip of land running north and south, bounded on the east by a fence and on the west by an imaginary line dividing the landlot into two halves. From the plaintiff’s own testimony it appears that for over 50 years neither he nor his predecessors in title have been in actual physical possession of any part of the land west of the fence which they themselves erected, and accordingly they have no claim to land west of that fence except by showing that it is included within the deeds which form the plaintiff’s chain of title. On this vital question the evidence…