Smith v. Milikin

Clarke, Justice.

This is an appeal and cross-appeal in the land line case concerning lots situated on St. Simons Island. The parties are contesting over a narrow, pie-shaped strip of land in a bitter controversy which is not new. See Milikin v. Smith, 240 Ga. 803 (242 SE2d 587) (1978). Milikin is the plaintiff in this action and the Smiths are defendants and counter-claimants.

The case was submitted to the jury on the issue of the location of the line and on the theory of adverse possession as it related to Milikin’s claim that the owners and occupants of his lot had possessed up to a…