Sheets v. Sweeney

Citations

• 136 Ill. 336

Syllabus

<p>1. Boundary—division line—as established by parol agreement between adjacent owners. The owners of adjacent lands may, by parol agreement, when fairly entered Into, settle and establish the boundary line between their lands, which, when followed by possession to the line thus established, will be binding upon them and their privies. Such agreement operates, not by way of conveyance of the land, but as determining where the true boundary in fact is, and it will be enforced, as well at law as in equity.</p> <p>2. The adoption of a division line by adjacent land owners may be implied from the acts and declarations of the parties, and their acquiescence therein for a considerable length of time; and such agreement, followed by possession in accordance therewith, will estop the parties from disputing it, although the Statute of Limitations has not run.</p>