Home Loan Co. v. Calhoun

The bill was to settle a disputed boundary line between city lots, and resulted in a decree for complainants.

The law of such case is well established in this jurisdiction. Turner v. De Priest, 205 Ala. 313, 87 So. 370. The rule of adverse possession is that—

“Where adjoining landowners claimed and held the land to a line which they believed to be the true line, not intending to hold beyond the true line such claim and possession of the one is not adverse to the rights of the other if the line was not in fact the true line; .however if they intended to hold to that line regardless of whether or…