Murrell v. Fowler

Tho judgment of .the court was pronounced by

Eustis, C. J,

The plaintiff and the defendants are the owners of two adjacent city lots, which they purchased at the same time at a public sale of the estate of a bankrupt. On the plaintiff’s lot there was a three story brick building, and the defendants having made use of the wall contiguous to their lot, the plaintiff instituted this action to recover one half of the value of the wall, and one half of the value of the land upon which it is built. There was judgment for the plaintiffs, and the defendants have appealed.

The defence is that, by the…