Baum v. Defa

CROCKETT, Justice:

This case involves an interfamily dispute over the boundary line between adjoining properties owned by plaintiffs Baum and the defendants Defa near the town of Hanna in Duchesne County. Both derived their titles through the same grantor, paterfamilias, Frank Defa. The dispute arises because in making deeds to these parties (or predecessors) he used straight-line metes and bounds descriptions upon which plaintiffs rely; whereas, the defendants rely on boundary by acquiescence in generally parallel but somewhat crooked fence lines which were built before the deeds divided the…