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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Camp et al. vs. Cochrane et al.
    
    1. The verdict was contrary to evidence. Plaintiff showed no possession of the strip of land in controversy, under colot of title or otherwise. The defendant showed actual possession under fence for more than seven years, under written color of title, and claim of right to the possessio pedis.
    
    2. Acquiescence for seven years, by acts or declarations of adjoining land-owners, will establish a dividing line; and where actual possession has been had, under a claim of right, for more than seven years, such claim shall be respécted, and the lines so marked by processioners as not to interfere with such possession. Code, §§2388, 2389.
    (a.) In the present case, processioners marking a line and the court and jury trying an ejectment case, having failed to respect a line so established, the verdict is set aside.
    September 11, 1883.
   Judgment reversed.

Jackson, Chief Justice.