Galt v. Willingham

BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit to settle the boundary line between adjoining lands. Appellants own the west % of the west % of fractional section 30, in township 49 south, of range 43 east. That section is made fractional by the Atlantic Ocean, which bounds it on the east. Appellee owns government lots 1 and 5 of the same section, which contain all the land remaining between the eastern boundary of appellants’ land and the ocean.

Appellants filed their bill of complaint, claiming that a strip of land approximately 500 feet wide, extending north and south through the section, is on the…