Cauley v. Sanders

This is an appeal from a final judgment in favor of defendants, Ovid E. Sanders and Arva Nell Sanders, and against plaintiff, Willie Cauley. The judgment determined that neither plaintiff nor defendants were entitled to recover damages from the other for trespass; it set a boundary line between the lands of the plaintiff and defendants and held the defendants were the owners of certain disputed real property. We reverse and remand.

The center of this controversy is a small strip of land, approximately one acre, located in Covington County. The plaintiff and defendants both claim to own it.

The…