Meyers v. Johnson

Suit by the appellee against the appellants for trespass guare clausum fregit. Saam pleaded liberum tenementum. Issue. Trial by jury. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff below.

Johnson and Saam were adjoining proprietors, and on the trial it became material to ascertain the boundary, or rather the division line, between them, and whether a certain fence was on the line.

The Court gave the following charge in this respect, viz:

“That fence might be in the right place in three ways: First. It would be in the right place if the true division line ran there. Second. Whether the true line ran…