Show OLD LD fENCE LINES I ARE AE HElO VALID II I I Supreme Court Hands Down De of Far Fal Reaching r Importance LOCAL PROPERTY INVOLVED Opinion Jy Chief chier holds rcy Salt Lkc CH CHIu Cl Iu Iii 1800 Is old The old fence lines years u o held valid in li an handed down b by Chief Ju Justice D N Monday In the case o of G W 1 oc 1 respondent against James s Langton the boundaries by the lie municipal gov O in 1890 In a large number ot ol instances the original ma maunder under which Salt Inko City secured lt It charter and the survey urcy or 1890 are arc lii In On account o of this some prop ei 11 ty owners havo hao been by others who hao bavo hold held to the old survey on oil side of their thell Property and tool the lie new on the tho other othel side o of the tho property gobbling up several feet fec which did nut not belong to thorn them opinion will affect a great number of cases calles In the tho Third district court which raised this point and JUdge L who tried the case In the lower court was In his decision or of the case tho supreme court affirming It IL PROPERTY INVOLVED Moyer owned the south southwest west corner of Main Maln and South street an this property was vas Involved In the tho suit The ownership of about lIve feet or of the property on the tho north sIde was In dl Adeline owned 10 rods lOds on Main street by six and rods on oa Fifth South street before Dee Dec 11 1896 when she sold old the south three rods t L George Moyer er In 1905 the three rods 10 the north or of Moyer were sold to r Langton angton and later the four rods to the orner were sold to a man nam named Felshman In the deeds to the prop property property erty a tone stone wall which had supplanted n a fence was used as the boun boundary of the property sold to Moyer It had been recognized for Cor more than 30 years as aI one o of the dividing lines on th property The b by the thc city engineer l In 1890 changed mark cutting oft off part or of the tho properly on Main street and cutting oft 00 about five fie feet teet at Fifth South street This moved moed the tho property line down and Moyer claimed that he was Injured and that obtained his ground His contention was waI uphold upheld b by the lower lowe court and affIrmed by the court Justice W M McCarty and J E 13 Frick concurred In the tho opinion e |