114 Ohio App. 538 - Sinclair Refining Co. v. Chaney’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 2021
9 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Most-quoted passages
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“As a general rule in Ohio the purchaser of land in the actual possession of a third person is chargeable with constructive notice of the occupant’s title and equities even though the fact of such possession is not actually known to the purchaser. Kelley v. Stanbery, 13 Ohio, 408; Ranney v. Hardy-Zeller v. Bading, 43 Ohio St, 157 [ 1 N.E. 523 ]; Dunkel v. Hedges, 15 Ohio App., 259, 265 ; Butcher v. Kagey Lumber Co., supra ( 164 Ohio St., 85 [ 128 N.E.2d 54 ], 57 O.O., 102 ), at page 90; Kemp v. Feldman, 84 Ohio App., 154, 158 , [ 81 N.E.2d 319 ], 39 O.O. 173, 174 ; 40 Ohio Jurisprudence, 1025, Vendor and Purchaser, Section 115; 33 Ohio Jurisprudence (2d), 281, Landlord and Tenant, Section 10; Parsons v. Weinstein, Trustee, 19 Ohio App., 521, 526 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“These cases, therefore, conclusively establish that in equity the lessee in actual possession under the defectively executed lease, and the one in possession under the properly executed but not recorded lease, are entitled to hold possession of the property for the full period of their leases as against the plaintiff, and this is so whether or not the plaintiff had acutal (sic) notice of the occupancy of the premises at the time he purchased the mortgage, or whether or not his predecessor in title had actual notice of said occupation of said property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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