Powell v. Reid

PALMORE, Justice.

R. B. Powell and wife brought this suit against their next-door neighbor, Alfred Reid, to settle a boundary dispute. They appeal from a judgment entered on a verdict for Reid.

The two lots face the east side of Wat-terson Trail in Jefferson County. They are part of a larger tract which was subdivided and sold off by lots in 1949. It is undisputed that when the lots were laid out the engineer who did the work set stakes at the corners, including the one here in controversy. The witness Martin, one of the owners at that time, testified without contradiction that before any of…