Wideman v. Faivre

The opinion of the court was delivered by

DAWSON, J.:

This lawsuit grows out of a controversy between neighboring landowners over a hedge fence. About 1876 the plaintiff, Eugenie Wideman, with the aid of her children and a neighbor planted a hedge fence one hundred and sixty rods long-, east and west, near the surveyed line between her land and the defendants’ land which bounded hers on the north. The hedgerow was planted in a plowed furrow about one foot south of a direct line between the corner stones* which had been set by government surveyors some years prior thereto. Thus the hedgerow was…