Hooper v. Herald

The parties to this action, and their respective fathers before them, owned and occupied adjoining tracts of land on sections 13 and 24, in Green Oak township, Livingston county, Mich., beginning in 1864, the lands on section 13 adjoining those on section 24. There was an old fence between their premises at a very early date. Section 24 is said to have contained more than 640 acres, which gave rise to a dispute about the boundary, and led to a survey to establish it, at the instance of plaintiff’s father, in the year 1879. The plaintiff claims that on a prior occasion the fence had been…