Peavy v. Goodroe

Andrews, Judge.

Marvin Peavy appeals from denial of his motion to set aside the judgment or grant a new trial in his boundary dispute with Roy Goodroe. Goodroe’s claim regarding the location of the boundary line was accepted by the jury. Additionally, he was awarded $25,000 for damages to his realty, based on Peavy’s bulldozing the disputed strip of property and destroying topsoil and pine seedlings intended for later harvest.

The dispute involved the location of the eastern boundary of a portion of Goodroe’s property, approximately 34 acres which he purchased in 1991 from Faye Markert, and the…