Sweats v. Southern Pine Lumber Company

BELL, Chief Justice.

This suit involves the correct location of the north line of the James Rust Survey in Trinity County. That line will also be the middle south line of the George Wilson Survey because the call in the Wilson field notes is for the north line of the Rust. The Rust is the senior survey. The trial court, sitting without a jury, found the north line of the Rust to be as contended for by appel-lee, that is, it followed the meanders of the cutoff of Piney Creek. This meant that the appellant Payne had cut timber on a tract of about 15 acres which lay in the Wilson Survey which…