Brown v. Peaslee

The real controversy between the parties is as to the site of the divisional line between their lands. Both claim under deeds which necessitate the location on the ground of the boundaries described; and, in addition, the defendant claims by adverse possession.

The referee to whom the cause was sent finds as a matter of fact that the defendant’s deeds (given and recorded more than twenty years prior to the commencement of this suit) include the land in question; “ that the defendant has been in the open, visible, notorious, exclusive, and adverse possession of the land described in his said…