Climer v. Wallace
Decision Date | 31 July 1859 |
Citation | 28 Mo. 556 |
Parties | CLIMER et al., Respondents, v. WALLACE, Appellant. |
Court | Missouri Supreme Court |
1. A worm fence is a part of the freehold and passes along with the land upon which it is built.
2. Where two adjoining proprietors agree to put up a partition fence between them, each to own that portion of the fence put up by himself, and the fence built by one is mistakenly located upon the land of the other, and the latter sells his tract to a person who has no notice of the agreement as to the ownership of the fence, such purchaser will take the fence so located upon his land.
3. The corners established by the United States surveyors in surveying the public lands are conclusive as to the actual location of the boundary lines of sections and such subdivisions thereof as are authorized by the laws of the United States; it cannot be shown that the United States surveyors mistakenly located such corners.
Appeal from Maries Circuit Court.
The facts in evidence sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court. The court gave the following instructions at the instance of the plaintiffs:
The court gave the following instructions asked by defendant:
The court, of its own motion, gave the following instruction: “The lands of the plaintiffs and defendant being divided by descriptions as given in the deed of the plaintiffs from Pinnell, the boundary line actually run and marked by the public surveyor is to be taken and considered as the true boundary or dividing line between the parties, and the witnesses in this cause were permitted to speak of their surveys and examinations only for the purpose of explaining the means resorted to for the purpose of discovering...
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