May v. Willis
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Lauderdale County; W. H. Mitchell, Special Judge. Ejectment by Wesley Willis against Ada May. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtSayre, J.
Action of ejectment. The case turned upon the correct location of a disputed boundary line between the parties, and this question was left to the jury. Defendant in the court below, appellant here, offered to show by her witness Edgar Gray that about 11 years before the trial he was present when E. S. Gregory, a county surveyor, ran the line between sections 5 and 6 and established a corner 140 yards’ south of the N. W. corner of the S. W. % of the N. W. % of said section 5, being present and assisting the surveyor. It was quite clear that the establishment of the corner to which the witness…
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