Scott v. Gubler

DONALDSON, Chief Justice.

This action involves a dispute over title to a triangular parcel of land along the boundary between two contiguous lots. The lots in question are Government Lots 3 and 4, Section 14, Township 9 South, Range 16 E.B.M., Jerome County, Idaho. Lot 3, owned by defendant-appellant Hazel Gubler, adjoins Lot 4 on the north. Lot 4 is owned by Ethel I. Scott, the plaintiff-respondent. The section line fence between Sections 14 and 15 runs along the western boundaries of both Lot 3 and Lot 4.

Mrs. Scott and her husband (now deceased) bought Lot 4 in 1956. Before buying the land,…