Case ID: ga_193/html/0823-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Bell, Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Foster v. Thomas.
    No. 14074.
    April 23, 1942.
    
      Joseph G. Collins, for plaintiff.
    
      Haralson & Carr and Jack G. Tarpley, for defendant.
   Bell, Justice.

1. Acquiescence for seven years by acts or declarations of" adjoining landowners shall establish a dividing line; and where a line has been so established as between coterminous owners, it will be binding upon their respective grantees. Code, § 85-1602; Osteen v. Wynn, 131 Ga. 209 (4) (62 S. E. 37, 127 Am. St. R. 212).

2. The evidence in this case demanded a finding that the line claimed by the defendant had been established by such acquiescence as between him and a coterminous owner under whom the plaintiff held; and such being the ease, the court did not err in directing the verdict in favor of the defendant. Compare Brown v. Hester, 169 Ga. 410 (150 S. E. 556); Sikes v. Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co., 182 Ga. 858 (187 S. E. 61).

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur.