Lying near or close to; contiguous. The difference between adjacent and adjoining seems to be that the former implies that the two objects are not widely separated, though they may not actually touch, while adjoining imports that they are so joined or united to each other that no third object intervenes. People v. Keechler, 194 111 235, 62 N. E. 525; Hanifen v. Armitage (C. C.) 117 Fed. 845; McDonald v. Wilson, 59 Ind. 54; Wormley v Wright County, 108 Iowa, 232, 78 N. W. 824; Hen nessy v. Douglas County, 99 Wis. 129, 74 N. W. 983; Yard v. Ocean Beach Ass’n, 49 N. J. Eq. 300, 24 Atl. 729; Henderson v. Long, 11 Fed. Cas. 1084; Yuba County v. Kate Hayes Min. Co., 141 Cal. 360, 74 Pac. 1049; United States v. St. Anthony It. Co., 192 U. S. 524, 24 Sup Ct. 333, 48 L. Ed 548. But see Miller v. Cabell, 81 Ky. 184; In re Sadler, 142 Pa. 511, 21 Atl. 978.