Horn v. Hays

This suit in ejectment, brought by the appellants as plaintiffs, is actually a boundary line dispute. The plaintiffs jointly own a tract of land lying immediately north of the defendant’s property. In 1950 the defendant built a house on what he thought to be his land, but the plaintiffs contend that he put the structure so far to the north that it is actually on their land. The trial court submitted the dispute to a jury, which returned a verdict for the defendant.

At the trial both sides undei’took.to locate the true boundary by first determining the southwest corner of the plaintiffs’…