Hobson v. Panguitch Lake Corporation

CROCKETT, Justice:

Under a claim that a boundary was established by an oral agreement according to an existing fence line plaintiffs Fred N. and Mary L. Hobson assert ownership of a strip of mountain land in Garfield County, overlapping a tract as described in conveyances to the defendant Panguitch Lake Corporation. The diagram below shows the properties with the disputed strip in cross-hatching.

Section 31, Township 35 South, Range 7 West

Prior to 1957 the 40-acre tracts (quarter quarter sections) 1, 2 and 3 were owned by William Marsden and Della D. Marsden. On November 1, 1957, William…