Bridges v. Henry

Candler, Justice.

This is a suit to recover a tract of land in Colquitt County containing .8 of an acre, and for a stated amount as damages or mesne profits. It is in fact a boundary-line controversy between coterminous landowners where neither disputes the title of the other to his respective tract as a whole. The plaintiff’s land is west of and adjacent to the defendant’s. After being twice amended, the petition in substance, and so far as need be stated, alleges: Until December 1948, the plaintiff was in possession of the land sued for. He and his predecessors in title had been in actual…