Smith v. Rich

Rich sued Smith in an action of trespass. The real controversy between them concerns the location of the quarter section post between sections twenty-sir and thirty-five in township eight north of range eight west: Smith owning land on section thirty-five and Rich land on section twenty-sir which would be separated by the line running from this quarter post to the corner of sections 26, 27, 34 and 35.

There seems to have been no controversy regarding the actual location of the section corners by the government surveyor, and Smith claimed that the quarter post between sections 26 and 35 was…