Stroud v. Snow

Gr. W. Stroud, the appellant, was the owner of a tract of land, a part of which he undertook to subdue and cultivate. In doing this he went beyond his line, cleared and inclosed a small parcel of land beyond his true boundary which he occupied under a claim of ownership for a period of approximately twenty years. At about the expiration of this period of time the appel-lee, Snow, purchased a tract of land adjoining that of the appellant on which the appellant’s fence had been built and the lands aforesaid inclosed and held.

On the trial of the case in the court below, the appel-lee and his…