Hunter v. Forrest

O’NIELL, Chief Justice.

This is the third time this case has been before the courts. It was originally a petitory action in which the plaintiffs claimed that the defendant, owning a tract of land adjacent to their tract, had taken possession of a part of their land. But the suit afterwards was dealt with as an action to fix the boundary line between the two tracts. During the trial of the first suit the judge, on his own motion, ordered a survey to he made for the purpose of establishing the dividing line, and for that purpose appointed two surveyors. They made the survey and filed it in court…