Abbott v. Prothro

This is a bonndary line dispute involving a strip of land forty feet in width. The suit was brought by the appellant Abbott, who asked for a decree quieting his title to the land in controversy. The appellees answered with an assertion of title in themselves and asked that their own title be quieted.- At the trial the questions presented were chiefly issues of fact. The chancellor entered a decree dismissing Abbott’s complaint and confirming the Pro-thros’ title.

The parties own lands lying on opposite sides of a concrete highway in Union county, the appellees’ property being a forty-acre…