Cocking v. Fulwider

Plaintiff sued to quiet title to a parcel of land containing approximately 0.83 of an acre situated in Mendocino County. For a second cause of action he sought an injunction to restrain defendants from removing a fence which he proposed to construct inclosing the parcel of land in dispute. . He was denied relief upon both causes of action and has appealed upon a typewritten record.

The controversy arose over the obliteration of the original section corner of sections 7-8-17 and 18, which was marked by a wooden stake erected at the time of the survey in 1873. The evidence is that this corner…