Welch v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “Surely, there cannot be any doubt that where the dividing line between two coterminous proprietors is doubtful, and for the purpose of solving such doubt they meet together and establish an agreed line, such agreed line must be regarded in all future controversies to be the true line. And there can be as little doubt that if the defendant's grantor ... was present at, and acquiesced in, the establishment of the agreed line in question, both he and his subsequent grantee, the defendant, would be bound thereby.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Goff v. Lever