Meyer v. Perkins

This is an action to enjoin the defendant from trespassing on the plaintiff’s land, and from cutting, destroying or removing any part of a hedge growing, as alleged, upon his premises and close to the boundary. The defendant prevailed, and the plaintiff appeals.

In 1879 John Chapman planted an Osage orange hedge for 160 rods along and but a few inches east of the western boundary of the land now owmed by the plaintiff, and from that time made no claim to the *61land west of his hedge. In 1889 Mr. Chapman’s son-in-law, Perkins, the defendant herein, purchased the land immediately west of Mr.…