Morgan v. Larde

MERRILL, Justice.

This appeal is from a decree in a boundary line dispute which set the true line between the parties to be that of the government survey.

At one time, Sam Larde, a Negro, owned some 1,000 acres in Sumter County, including both tracts where the line is disputed. At his death, his property was divided in kind among his children. One son, Will Larde, acquired the NEJ4 of NWj4, and another son, Alex Larde, acquired the Ni/2 of NEj4, all of Sec. 10, Tp. 18 N, R. 4 West. Alex Larde sold his eighty acres to E. B. Morgan on January 9, 1939, and E. B. Morgan willed this eighty acres to…