Ferris v. Snellings

This is a boundary dispute. Plaintiffs Carey W. Snellings and Marion E. Snellings, his wife, filed a motion for judgment under § 8-836 of the Code against defendant Mildred Ferris. The trial court, sitting without a jury, entered an order on August 3, 1971, finding for plaintiffs. On December 8, 1971, we granted defendant’s petition for a writ of error.

Snellings’s land adjoins Ferris’s land on the east. Ferris claims that her eastern boundary line follows the meanders of a creek. The Snellings claim that their western boundary line follows a fence lying west of the creek. Title to the 12-acre…