Cavanaugh

The record shows that in December, 1880, and long prior thereto, the plaintiff was in possession of the Coats place, which he now owns, and the defendant, Jackson, was in possession of an adjoining ranch, known as the Beaughan place. A dispute having arisen as to the boundary line between the two ranches, a surveyor was employed by plaintiff and defendant to make a survey and establish the true line. Such survey was made in December, 1880. The plaintiff testified as follows: “ Jackson had this land fenced up for a long time prior to the first day of September, 1886, — maybe four or five years before that date, — along with other lands of his. .... Jackson and I established a line of fence between the Coats place, which I now own, and the Beaughan place, now owned by Jackson; we had the land surveyed from the center of section 28, west to the road. We established the line on the quarter-section line, and when we established the line, Jackson moved his fence out to the road, and inclosed this strip in controversy; that strip is narrower at the west end than at the east end. I bought the Coats place from Mr. Orr, but the deed did not include this strip, and Mr. Warren discovered that…