Maughon v. Lassiter

Judge Harold R. Banke.

In this boundary dispute, James Maughon sued Henry Lassiter for trespass to prevent the removal of timber from the contested property. After the jury returned a verdict for Lassiter, Maughon brought this appeal, challenging the exclusion of a 1956 plat.

Prior to trial, Lassiter moved in limine to exclude the 1956 plat on the grounds that Maughon could not prove its correctness, it contradicted the plat Maughon’s lawyers used to draw his deed, and it lacked relevance, in that the plat was not in Maughon’s chain of title. The plat depicted adjoining property, the boundary…