southeast quarter (SE ¼) of Section 16, Township 22 South, Range 9 West, containing 30 acres, more or less."
This property came to them by mesne conveyances from the Smith family.
At the time of the death of the last of the Smiths in 1966, it appears the Smith *13 and Bradley families had been coterminous landowners for nearly eighty years. The evidence at trial established with little question that the present fence east of the road has been in existence for over 60 years, and that Mr. Bradley and his father had cultivated to the fence, cut timber to the fence line, and used the disputed strip as pasture. There was also testimony that there was a distinct change in use of the land at the fence line, andis it, Mr. Bradley?
"A. It's on the ground where the logs tore it out."
*17 The established fence east of the road is a meandering fence varying in distance from the quarter-section line. In Mr. Bradley's testimony, there is nothing to indicate where this "fence on the ground" west of the road begins or ends or the line it takes.
By contrast the surveyor who was specifically commissioned by Mr. Kubiszyn to plot the fence and survey the quarter-section line testified he remembered no fence west of the road. His field notes reflected no indication of a fence. He located no such fence west of Bradley Road, although he did locate the fence east of the road.
Mr. Kubiszyn testified positively that west of the road there was no barbed wire