Lemke v. Anders

The plaintiffs, Albin and Rudolph Lemke, purchased an eighty-acre tract of timberland and began cutting the standing timber on the land. As the result of a recent survey which placed the east boundary of their property west of a fence which they supposed was the east property line, a dispute arose between them and the defendant, Edward Herman Anders, who owned the land to the east of plaintiffs’ tract. He endeavored to have plaintiffs stop cutting the timber on the land in dispute, but they continued to cut the trees.

On December 10, 1948, Anders’ attorney, Charles E. Stickler, prepared at the…