Allen v. Reed

Citations

• 51 Cal. 362
• 1876 Cal. LEXIS 49

Syllabus

<p>Boottoabt Lines.—If two persons own adjoining tracts of land, and one of them erects a fence upon what he believes to be the boundary line between the tracts, and the fence is not on the true line, but is several inches on the adjoining tract, and the one building the fence holds adverse possession of the land of the other thus inclosed for several years, under the belief that the fence is on the true line, these facts do not make the line on which the fence is built the dividing line, nor make it the true line, and the one whose land is taken can recover it in ejectment.</p>