Dean v. Woolbright

Ethridge,. J.

This suit concerns a dispute over the boundary line between the two 40-acre tracts of land in Lauderdale County. The appeal involves primarily the questions of whether the chancellor was correct in (a) overruling the defendants’ plea of equitable estoppel, and (b) in rejecting the survey of Lee B. Brandon, and in holding that the agreement of the parties to settle the suit by having a survey made which would establish the “true land line” between the two tracts was unenforceable.

Appellee-complainant, Mrs. Sudie Mae Wool-bright, was the owner of the east forty acres in ques*311tion,…