Phillips

This action, brought to quiet title to a strip of land thirty feet in width, has for its real object the determination of the boundary line between certain lands severally owned by the plaintiffs and an adjacent tract owned by the defendants. The lands referred to are all in the same quarter-section in Fresno County. The appeal is from the judgment entered in favor of the defendants.

It is admitted that plaintiff Stratton owns the north half of the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of the section, that Phillips owns the south half of the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter thereof, and that the defendants own the east half of the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter. The boundary line in controversy marks the east boundary of the Mortensen property and the west boundary of the lands of Stratton and Phillips, respectively. It is alleged in plaintiffs’ complaint that a line precisely described therein by courses and distances is the true location of the disputed line, which line had been surveyed and marked on the ground by monuments about one year before the present action was begun. The defendants, on the other hand, claim that the true boundary line between…