Atlanta Trailer Mart, Inc. v. Ashmore Foods, Inc.

Marshall, Justice.

This is a boundary-line dispute between two adjacent property owners.

The parties trace title to their respective tracts to common grantors Cheves and Middleton. Cheves and Middleton conveyed the southern tract to Hickcox, who in turn conveyed to Ashmore Sausage Company, Inc., now Ashmore Foods, Inc. Under the property description in Ashmore Foods’ deed, its northern property line is found by beginning at a certain described point and thence running “200 feet, more or less, to an iron pin,” which is located at the northwest corner of the tract. Cheves and Middleton conveyed…