Tritt v. Hoover

This is an action of ejectment for a strip of land about 8 feet wide by 40 rods long, between the two farms of the parties. Each claims the land. It appears that in 1830 William Garwood and Lewis Edwards, Sr., became the owners of adjoining farms in Cass county. The Edwards farm was immediately north of the Gar-wood farm, and in the town of P.okagon, while the Gar-wood farm was in Howard township; the two farms being divided by the township line. For many years there was no division fence between them, but some time prior to 1840 a lane was laid out, east and west, between the farms, supposed…