Connelly v. Buckingham

This case presents a classic boundary line dispute, the law of which is seldom reviewed today except by students of rudimentary property law. The plaintiff filed a complaint to quiet title to a disputed stretch of land, an area of approximately 627 square feet. As depicted in the diagram at the end of this opinion, the disputed property is triangular in shape. It lies to the northeast of the plaintiffs property, and to the southwest corner of the tract of land owned by the defendants James and Barbara Buckingham. The Clinton River bounds all of the property of the parties to the northwest.…