Salsbury v. Oliphant

This is a boundary dispute between neighbors whose lands lie along a 1320-foot line separating two forty-acre tracts. The appellants’ land is on the west, the appellee’s on the east. Although the parties do not respectively own the entire forty-acre tracts, their common boundary line comprises the full 1320 feet. We are asked to review the chancellor’s action in fixing a line that admittedly does not conform to the original United States survey of the two forties.

It is unnecessary for us to summarize the pleadings in order to state the issues. The present controversy really begins with a…