Ramsey v. Ogden
Oregon Supreme Court
Multnomah County: Erasmus D. Shattuck, Judge. This was an action of ejectment. The complaint is in the usual form, alleging title and right to possession in the plaintiff, and a wrongful withholding by the defendant. The answer denies the allegations of the complaint, and sets up title by virtue of adverse possession, which is denied in the reply. The trial resulted in a verdict for the defendant, upon which judgment was entered, and from which plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLord, C. J.
The pleadings and evidence, contained in the bill of exceptions, show that there is a fence along *348the north line of the land in controversy, which has been maintained there and used by the plaintiff on the one part and the defendant and his predecessor Smith on the other part, for more than twenty years, as the division line between their lands. The testimony of Smith and the defendant tended to show that they and plaintiff had rebuilt and maintained this fence as the line fence between their land and plaintiff’s for more than twenty years prior to the commencement of the action, and that…
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