Dean v. Given

Hatcher, President:

This is an action of unlawful entry and detainer. About the year 1900, Thomas Coger entered into a verbal contract with his daughter, Martha, who had married Fred Sawyers, to convey to her a certain part of his farm. Some difference of opinion arising between Coger and Sawyers as to where one of the lines should run, Coger fixed one corner of the line at a white oak stamp on a ridge, the other corner on a hickory at the lower side of the county road, and required Sawyers to set out a row of locust sprouts and to build a fence on a practically straight line between these…