Williams v. Hewitt

This is ejectment, and the facts appear by stipulation of counsel as follows:

*690The land in controversy is a narrow strip, fronting about two feet on the north margin of Broad street, and measuring about four feet on an alley in the rear, and running back 160 feet and six inches on the east side, and somewhat less distance on the west side.

P. L. Nichol owned the whole of lot No. 61, of which the land in controversy is a part. Nichol sold to Michael Halloran the eastern half of lot No. 61 in June, 1864, Halloran understood that he bought and paid for a fifty-foot lot, which was exactly one-half…