Piper v. Hole

Plaintiff is the owner of the Southwest Quarter of Section Thirty-two, Township Forty, Range Twenty-seven on the south boundary of Mellette County. Defendant is the owner of the Northwest Quarter of Section Five, Township Thirty-nine, North Range Twenty-seven on the north boundary of Todd County. The farms adjoin each other at the county line. In the year 1937 the defendant was a tenant in possession of both tracts. He bought the Todd County land that year and built a fence on the party line between these two quarter sections. The plaintiff bought the Mellette County land in March, 1941, and…