Beeman v. Black

Plaintiff recovered judgment against ■defendant for taking and carrying away 25 cords of wood. .Tlie controversy all turned on.the boundary of the land where it was cut. Plaintiff had been owner and possessor of a government subdivision of land on the north side of which was an old line with monuments and blazed trees, which had been there for many years. Some time in the year before this wood was cut a new line had been run by a person who is said to have been county surveyor, who disregarded the old land-marks and cut off from plaintiff’s former ostensible bounds a gore of wood two rods…