Blance v. Alley

NICHOLS, Justice.

This appeal requires us to focus upon the doctrine of the law of the case because of the unusual circumstance that both Plaintiff and Defendants seek to invoke that doctrine in support of their respective positions herein.

Rupert Blance, the Plaintiff’s late husband and predecessor in title, commenced this action in Superior Court on July 16, 1969, seeking in that part of Gouldsboro known as Prospect Harbor to establish the common boundary between certain land of the Defendants, Austin M. Alley and Helen M. Alley, and a triangular lot to which Blance claimed title.

By their…