Clay v. Stanfield

Head, Presiding Justice.

In an action asserting title to a strip of land seven feet wide located at the rear of the properties of the coterminous owners, the juiy returned a verdict for the plaintiffs, W. C. Stanfield and wife, Elizabeth Stanfield, and a judgment was entered decreeing title in them. The motion for new trial, as amended, of the defendants, Harold 0. Clay, Virgil C. Clay, and H. S. Griffith, was denied, and the exception is to this judgment.

“ ‘Where each of two coterminous proprietors recognizes the ownership of the other, and that the tract of each is bounded by that of the…