Patton v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

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7 state decisions

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1. “In 1883 Remelius became the owner of both tracts, and the evidence shows that, when some question arose thereafter as to the location of the survey line, he said it made no difference, inasmuch as he owned all the land on both sides of the line, wherever it might be. So that even if the possession of Kennedy had been hostile to Remelius, and even if Kennedy had intended to claim to the line established as the survey line by [the county surveyor], without regard to whether that was the true line or not, and even if Kennedy and Remelius had agreed upon the line established by [the county surveyor], nevertheless, when Remelius became the owner of both tracts of land, all such questions became immaterial. There was no adverse holding thereafter by Remelius as the owner of one tract against himself as the owner of the other tract, and there was no longer any question of any agreed line dividing the two tracts.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Salazar v. Terry

2. “[w]hen Remelius became the owner of both tracts, he wiped out and abandoned any agreed dividing line, if there ever was one.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Salazar v. Terry