Alexander v. Thompson

Simon Alexander brought an equitable petition against J. M. Thompson, to have established as the true line dividing certain lands of the petitioner and lands of the defendant, a line alleged to have been agreed upon by them, and to recover all of the land lying west of such line in possession of the defendant.- There was a verdict for the defendant; and the ease is. here for review, upon exception to the overruling of the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial. The contention of the petitioner was, that the county surveyor, at the instance of petitioner and defendant, had run a given lino on the…