ROBERTSON vs. REINDOR

It is not disputed that the plaintiff’s family, the Nikoi Olai stool family (hereafter called the “Nikoi Olai family” for short) are the owners of a tract of land called Mukose lands. It is also not disputed that adjacent to the Mukose lands is another tract, known as Dome lands, owned by the Onamrokor Adain family (hereafter called the “Onamrokor family”) of which the defendant, now respondent, was the head. The real controversy in this case is as to the proper boundary which demarcates these respective lands. The plaintiff, now appellant, draws his relevant boundary at a place which the respondent says eats into their Dome lands while the respondent takes a boundary which the appellant says lies within their Mukose lands. Thus we have the all too familiar situation in disputes of this kind where each of the parties lays claim to a parcel of land lying in between undisputed properties belonging to them. The question for the trial court was whether the appellant’s claim to ...