Snowden & McSweeny Co. v. Hanley

The dominant issue in this case is whether one J. B. Williams had, before the institution of this suit, acquired title by adverse possession to the south ten acres of the SE¼ of NE¼, Sec. 35, Tp. 10, B. 3 W., in Yazoo County.

This ten acres has been a part of what was known as the Jeffries land and was so when J. C. Peyton purchased the Jeffries property in 1881. Peyton had his residence on the ten acres mentioned, and some time about 1885 he constructed a barbed wire fence running along and upon the entire south line of the said SE¼ of NE¼. This fence was then and, according to the great…