Fisk v. Hopping

In the circuit court of Mason county George G. Hopping and Mary E. Hopping, the appellees, brought suit in ejectment against Eli C. Fisk, the appellant, for the recovery of a strip of ground eighteen feet in width by forty rods in length. Two forty-acre tracts of land lie side by side, one owned by each of the parties to this suit, and the controversy between them is as to the boundary .line between the south half of the tracts. Fisk’s forty lies west of the disputed line and the land of the Hop-pings east of it. The eighteen feet of ground in question are upon the land claimed by the…