Nelson v. Wagner

SWANSTROM, Judge.

Floyd and Henrietta Nelson brought this action to quiet title to a strip of land which also was claimed by George and Caroline Wagner. The Nelsons further sought compensatory damages for the Wagners’ alleged trespass on the strip, as well as punitive damages. The Wagners counterclaimed. They alleged the Nelsons had misrepresented the location of the boundary line between two parcels the Nelsons owned, one of which the Wagners later purchased. 1 The disputed strip lay between the boundary line as allegedly misrepresented by the Nelsons and the line established by two surveys.…