Lilly v. Marcum

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Sandidge

Affirming.

Grant E. Lilly and others brought this suit against C. Marcum to recover a tract of land in Irvine. The jury found for Marcum, and plaintiffs have appealed.

Appellants and appellee are adjoining landowners, and the case turns on the proper location of their dividing lin,e, which is described in the- deed as follows:

“Beginning at the town lots at one corner of Norton and Noland and Powell, thence a straight line running with th'e line of the lots between Norton and Noland to Clay’s back line on the mountain.”

The location of the line depends…