Moeller v. Graves

This is a boundary line dispute. The controlling question is whether adjoining landowners may, even in the absence of any dispute or uncertainty, change the location of the boundary by an oral agreement that is carried into effect by the maintenance of a fence along the agreed line for more than seven years.

There is no real dispute about the parol agreement. What is now the appellees’ property was once owned by Marguerite Miles, and what is now the appellants ’ property was owned by R. E. and R. M. Ming. In 1945 Mrs. Miles and her husband decided to erect a fence between the two tracts, to…