Morris v. Monroe

Pope, Judge.

This is a boundary line dispute between two adjacent landowners.

The parties trace their titles to a common remote predecessor in title, Donald Hatfield, a third-party defendant in this action. Hatfield acquired title to Land Lot Number 1237, 4th District, 3rd Section of Bartow County, Georgia in 1950. In 1953 Hatfield conveyed the north half of the tract to his brother and sister-in-law *789who then gave her father, Mack Howell, a parcel of land on which to build a home. After construction began, Mr. Howell discovered that the construction site was not located within his lot. It was,…