Sherman v. King
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Johnson Circuit Court. W. L. Moose, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Sherman and King were owners of adjoining tracts of land. The lines between these two tracts had been surveyed in 1869 by a surveyor employed by Odom, a former owner of the Sherman tract of land. The fences on the land afterwards conformed to the lines of this survey.
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Appeal from Johnson Circuit Court. W. L. Moose, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Sherman and King were owners of adjoining tracts of land. The lines between these two tracts had been surveyed in 1869 by a surveyor employed by Odom, a former owner of the Sherman tract of land. The fences on the land afterwards conformed to the lines of this survey. After King becáme the owner of the other tract, he had the land surveyed by one Laughlin, which survey showed that a portion of his tract was within the inclosure of Sherman. A controversy thus arose between King and Sherman as to the correct location…
1Opinion of the Court
Riddick, J.,
(after stating the facts). This lawsuit arose out of a disagreement between two proprietors of adjoining land concerning the location of the boundary line between their estates. In this dilemma they agreed to settle the matter by establishing the lines of a.survey made by one Laughlin as the correct boundary line between them, except on the front of the tract where one of the proprietors agreed to convey a strip of land to the other so as to give the other access to the public highway. The price to be paid for this strip was to be settled by arbitration. Now, this part of the…
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