Sturgell v. Taylor

CLAY, Commissioner.

The question involved in this suit is the title to an 86-foot strip of land on U. S. Highway 119 in Pike County. The case was tried without a jury, and on motion for judgment at the close of appellant plaintiffs’ evidence, judgment was entered for appellee defendants.

The narrow issue is whether or not the tract in controversy was a part of a larger tract, lying immediately to the west thereof, conveyed by plaintiffs’ predecessor in title to John Taylor in 1935. The location of the true western boundary of the John Taylor land is the determining factor in the case.

The 1935…