Lentell
Lentell v. McBride
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Waste, J.
Defendants appeal from a judgment quieting plaintiff’s title and directing restitution of certain lands. The cause presents a boundary line dispute and the record consists principally of evidence of a technical character having to do with land patents, government field notes, surveys and testimony interpreting and explaining the same.
At the conclusion of the trial the court below found that there is no overlapping of the lands of the respective parties and that the disputed boundary line between sections 8 and 9 and between sections 16 and 17 in township 3 north of range 4 east, Humboldt meridian, is located in the position as established in the survey relied upon by the plaintiff and that the land described in plaintiff’s complaint lies east of and adjoining said line as so established while that portion of defendants’ land described in their amended answer lies west of the line so established. We have examined the entire record, including the exhibits, and are of the opinion that there is ample evidence to sustain the findings and judgment. As declared in our recent decision in Hildebrand v. Hall, ante, p. 162 [ 59 Pac. (2d) 988 ], also involving a boundary dispute, the…