Title: Smith v. Nelson
Citation: 355 So. 2d 359
Docket Number: N/A
State: Alabama
Issuer: Alabama Supreme Court
Date: February 3, 1978

355 So. 2d 359 (1978)
Allen G. SMITH, et al.
v.
Ray NELSON.
SC 2595.

Supreme Court of Alabama.
February 3, 1978.
Wayne H. Smith, Heflin, for appellants.
Lewis H. Hamner, Jr., Roanoke, for appellee.
EMBRY, Justice.
This is a disputed boundary line case wherein Ray Nelson was plaintiff, and Allen G. Smith, Ruby N. Smith, John H. Mitchell and Alice Jane Mitchell were defendants. The trial court heard the evidence without a jury and its memorandum of opinion provides an excellent summary of the evidence:
Upon this evidence the trial court decreed:
No authority need be cited for the recognized rule that a decree establishing a boundary line between coterminous lands on evidence submitted ore tenus in open court is presumed to be correct, and in such cases the trial court's conclusions will not be disturbed unless plainly erroneous or manifestly unjust.
Equally applicable here is the principal that a decree fixing a boundary line between coterminous owners must only be supported by credible evidence. Snider v. Shirley, 341 So. 2d 677 (Ala.1977).
The record supports the trial court's conclusion that there was no evidence according to a governmental survey of the location of the Cleburne-Randolph County line in this area; therefore the county line had no bearing on the location of the disputed corner. Also, there is evidence from which the trial court could have concluded that Nelson and his predecessors in title have adversely held the property up to the disputed corner for more than 40 years before any dispute arose.
We find ample supporting evidence for the judgment and, after a review of all the evidence, we cannot say the judgment of the trial court is plainly wrong or manifestly unjust; therefore, the judgment is due to be affirmed.
AFFIRMED.
TORBERT, C. J., and BLOODWORTH, FAULKNER and ALMON, JJ., concur.