Davis v. Williams

Quillian, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from a jury verdict and judgment for plaintiff-appellee Williams in an action to settle a disputed boundary line.

The parties are owners of adjoining small acreages and both claim ownership of a disputed strip of land along their common boundary. Defendant-appellant Davis had entered into a boundary line agreement with Roop, Williams’ predecessor in title, based on the metes and bounds description in Roop’s deed, and which included the disputed strip as part of Roop’s land. Despite the agreement, Davis persisted in exercising control over the…