Needham v. Collamer

PEEK, J.

The defendants appeal from a judgment entered in an action instituted by plaintiffs to quiet their title to certain property located in Lake County. Plaintiffs and defendants are the owners of adjoining lots and the controversy concerns the location of the boundary line between their respective properties.

By a deed dated February 8,1945, J. Dan Moy and Evalene Moy conveyed to plaintiffs Lot 24 of a subdivision known as “Restricted Park Tract Subdivision of Lot 12, Clear Lake Acres,” and on May 4, 1945, the same grantors conveyed to the defendants an adjoining lot designated as Lot 25 in the same division. The foregoing deeds described the property thereby conveyed by reference to the official map of the subdivision recorded in 1923.

The court found that the Moys were the owners of Lots 24 and 25 prior to the execution of the aforementioned deeds; that the westerly boundary of Lot 24 is coincident with the easterly boundary of Lot 25; that at the time of the conveyance of Lot 24 to the plaintiffs Mr. Moy indicated the boundary line to the plaintiffs as running from an iron stake driven in the ground at the northwest corner of Lot 25 in a southerly direction to a double tree on the lake shore and on into-Clear Lake for a distance of 352 feet and that said line passed 30 inches west of the westerly wall of the garage located on Lot

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24. The court further found that plaintiffs, after the execution of the deed conveying Lot 24 to them, occupied said Lot 24 up to the line so indicated by Hoy and have so occupied said lot ever since; that Hoy occupied Lot 25 up to the line so indicated and agreed upon; that the defendants, after the conveyance to them of said Lot 25 by the Hoys, occupied the same up to the boundary line so designated and agreed upon between Hoy and the plaintiffs as the boundary line; and that plaintiffs put in a pipe line along the west line of their lot without objection by the Hoys or the defendants as to its location.

A surveyor who, at the request of defendants, resurveyed Lot 25 in July, 1945, placed the northeast corner of Lot 25 approximately 2% feet to the east from the iron stake found by the court to be the northwest corner of Lot 24. The effect of the boundary line as established by said survey was to place part of the garage now located on Lot 24 on to Lot 25, whereas, as above stated, the boundary line as indicated by Moy and agreed upon with plaintiffs passed 30 inches to the west of the garage.