Argus v. Johns

Plaintiffs and defendants are adjoining landowners. Plaintiffs filed a bill of complaint in the circuit court of Oakland county, in chancery, to restrain defendants from removing, tearing down, or destroying a fence erected by plaintiffs on what they claim to be the true boundary line between their lands and those of defendants. Defendants answered claiming plaintiffs had wrongfully undertaken to erect a line fence not on the true boundary line between the premises. There was decree for defendants’, and plaintiffs appeal.

Plaintiffs claimed the boundary line had been established for 50 years.…