Cumbee v. Ritter’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “In a case like this, where both parties claim title and possession, and both are exercising acts of ownership, and one fails to establish even a prima facie case, we are of opinion that in the interest of peace, law, and order the equity court should take jurisdiction, and that in this case the trial court properly determined the question raised against the defendant's contention, which rests upon a claim of title, which is entirely unsustained, if not negatived, by the evidence introduced to support it. In view, however, of the fact that the record suggests the possibility that the defendants were overconfident in their view that the court of equity had no jurisdiction, and therefore failed fully to present the evidence upon which they relied in support of their claim of title, we are not disposed to close the door of opportunity to them.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Patterson v. Saunders

2. “that, in the absence of some peculiar equity arising out of the conduct, situation, or relation of the parties, courts of equity are without jurisdiction to settle disputes as to title and boundaries of land.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Patterson v. Saunders