United States v. Roy W. Williams and Carl v. Ivey

DYER, Circuit Judge:

In this boundary dispute, Williams and Ivey appeal from the District Court’s judgment enjoining them from future trespass on lands owned by the United States and ordering them to remove all obstructions from the Government’s property. Williams and Ivey argue that the District Court erred both in denying them a jury trial and in publishing clearly erroneous findings of fact and incorrect conclusions of law, upon which its judgment was based. We affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand.

This controversy has been a half century in the making. Originally the land in dispute…