Simpson v. Sheridan

Knutson, Justice.

This case involves a boundary-line dispute. Plaintiffs are the fee owners of a tract of land in Rice county, comprising a part of the NE14 of SE^ of section 35, township 110 north, range 21 west, which contains about 21 acres.

Defendant Esther Sheridan owns the land immediately to the west of and adjoining plaintiffs’ land. Both parcels are bounded on the south by trunk highway No. 60, which runs west from the city of Faribault.

An old barbed-wire fence separates the two tracts of land. In 1917, plaintiff Floyd R. Simpson employed Walter G. Docken, Rice county surveyor, to make…