Beresford v. C. W. Gray & Sons, Inc.

This is a land ownership dispute based on a twenty-four acre difference between deed calls and occupancy. The lower court found the ownership to be commensurate with the occupancy on the basis of adverse possession for more than fifteen years and ruled in favor of the defendant. The plaintiffs contest that view as not sustainable under the law or the evidence and appeal here.

Unlike some land disputes this case is a little more than a dispute in the direction or position of a single common boundary. The plaintiffs succeeded, in line of title, to the ownership of a farm referred to as the…