Burton v. Redmond

This controversy arose over a strip of land situated in an area described as the Compromise Survey of Cohea Estate, in the City of Jackson. Lelor Grant Burton and others, appellants, owned Lot 15. Dr. S. D. Redmond owned Lots 16, 17 and 18. These four lots were in the form of a trapezoid. Lot 15 was 50 feet wide, and 202 feet long on the south side. It was bounded on the east by Railroad Avenue, on the west by Hoskins or Salem Street, and on the south by the Redmond property.

By their suit in the county court, the appellants sought to eject Dr. Redmond from a strip of land 15 feet wide and 122…