Goen v. Sansbury

The appeal is from a decree dismissing a bill by landowners (the descendants of Otho S. Pumphrey and a spouse of one, hereinafter called “the Pumphreys”) against an adjoining owner (Mrs. Sansbury) to remove a cloud on the title to a tract of ground claimed by both, after a finding by the chancellor that Mrs. Sansbury had acquired good title to the disputed area by adverse possession. Mrs. Sansbury 'claims in this Court that the chancellor’s decision is supportable on the alternative theory that there was no basis for equitable relief shown since the Pumphreys did not have possession, citing…