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where he said it was. The boundary will be established between the post and the
white oak tree.
But what if the person making the representations is mistaken about the loca-
tion of the true boundary, or what if the person who claims to be injured knew
where the true line was all along? Many jurisdictions require that in order to be
bound by estoppel the person making the representations must have known were
the true boundary was located. There is no universal agreement upon this issue,
and some jurisdictions do not require knowledge of the true boundary. In that case,
the person making the representations would be estopped even without knowledge
of the true boundary location. If the person claiming injury knew the location of
the true boundary, they could not claim to have relied on the representations of
someone else and the person making representations would not be estopped from
claiming to the true boundary line.
