Madsen v. Clegg

HALL, Chief Justice:

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment quieting title in defendant to disputed real property under the doctrine of boundary by acquiescence.

The dispositive facts of this case are essentially uncontroverted. The parties’ predecessors in interest acquired adjoining tracts of land from a common grantor on the same day in 1904. The metes and bounds descriptions of their respective deeds of conveyance are compatible and form a boundary between the tracts which takes a substantial jog of 1.85 chains to the north before continuing east. This jog enclosed a shed and corral area as a…