Tobey v. Secor

This is the common case of contest over the boundaries of land by adjoining owners. The evidence tended to show that both parties purchased their lauds and went into the possession and occupancy thereof about the same time, aud about thirty years ago, and that the defendant built line-fences on the lines denoted by the monuments then standing of the original government survey between his land and that of the plaintiff, and that afterwards the plaintiff, when he came into the possession of his land, joined with the defendant in building fences on the same lines, and they divided the fences…