Nichols v. Wilson

ORR, Judge.

This case, which involves a property-line dispute, has seen two jury trials and one attempted appeal to this Court in its ten-year history. The property at issue, which includes an old mill pond and surrounding property in Old Fields Township in Wilson County, was once owned in its entirety by J.J. Wilson, who died in 1928. The mill pond was first created when J.J. Wilson built an earthen dam on the Mill Branch, as a source of water power for a grist mill and for other uses, before the turn of the century. During the period of time from about *2901925, when the earthen dam washed…