Rossner v. Jeffery

This case began as a suit by the appellants, the Bossner heirs, to require Jeffery Construction Company to render an accounting under a lease by which the Bossners had authorized Jeffery to remove dirt from a forty-acre tract at a royalty of ten cents a cubic yard. The case became a boundary dispute when Kelton Brown, Jr., an adjoining landowner, intervened and asserted title by adverse possession to part of the leased land. Jeffery admitted its liability to one claimant or the other and deposited the accrued royalties in the registry of the court. This appeal is from a decree sustaining…