Welton v. Poynter

This is an action of ejectment for a piece of farm land about five rods in width and fifteen rods in length. The question is really one of the location of the boundary line between the plaintiff and defendants. The plaintiff’s lands are west of, and immediately adjoining, the defendants’ *347lands. The plaintiff’s line on the east, according to his deed and the deeds of all his grantors for nearly thirty years, is a north and south line eight rods east of a certain quarter-section line. For the same length of time this line has been supposed to be marked by a fence which stands eight rods east of…