Bedingfield v. Brewer

Quillian, Justice.

This is an equitable case involving a controversy between coterminous land owners as to the boundary line between their land lots. The plaintiff contended the line was marked by an old fence erected by the parties’ predecessors in title and recognized for thirty years as following the course of the dividing line. His proof utterly failed to establish as a fact that the fence was constructed by a predecessor in title of either party and fell short of showing any recognition of the fence as being upon the line until the plaintiff purchased and went into possession of his lot…