Legal Opinion

Lane v. Walker

Utah Supreme Court

Decided January 29, 1973No. 12868PublishedCited by 14 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

HENRIOD, Justice:

Appeal from a quiet title judgment establishing a boundary by acquiescence favorable to defendants. Affirmed.

This is an action to quiet title to an area described by metes and bounds and also by a fence or evidence of its existence uninterruptedly for upwards of 48 years, — a fact reasonably believable from facts in the record!

Plaintiffs urge that there is no evidence to indulge a fiction that there was a fence mutually “intended” to be a boundary. To' this we say that the test to establish the boundary by “acquiescence” necessarily need not be based on mutual “intent.”…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Fuoco v. WilliamsUtah Supreme Court · 1966
  2. King v. FronkUtah Supreme Court · 1963
  3. Motzkus v. CarrollUtah Supreme Court · 1958

3Cited by14 opinions

  1. Sachs v. BOARD OF TRUSTEES, ETC.New Mexico Supreme Court · 1976
  2. Williams v. OldroydUtah Supreme Court · 1978
  3. Mason v. LovelessCourt of Appeals of Utah · 2001
  4. Anderson v. FautinUtah Supreme Court · 2016
  5. Platt v. MartinezNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1977

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