Coggan v. Coggan’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. “"* * * when one cotenant has exclusive possession of lands owned as tenant in common with another and uses those lands for his own benefit and does not receive rents or profits therefrom, such cotenant is not liable or accountable to his cotenant out of possession unless such cotenant in exclusive possession holds adversely or as the result of ouster or the equivalent thereof. This was the rule of common law, as modified by the Statute of Ann, and as it was expressly adopted as the law of Florida in 1875 by our Supreme Court in Bird v. Bird (Fla. 1875), 15 Fla. 424 . The rule has persisted unchanged and has heretofore been recognized by this court. See, Taylor v. Taylor (Fla.App.2d 1960), 119 So.2d 811, 813 . Thus it appears that appellant's point is well taken unless the case falls within one of the exceptions to the rule; i.e., unless it is shown that appellant held exclusive possession of his professional office adversely to appellee, or as the result of ouster or the equivalent thereof. See, 51 A.L.R.2d 388 , 437, § 13."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Barrow v. Barrow · 239 So. 2d 17 - Coggan v. Coggan

2. “"... that a trial judge in a divorce case has inherent authority to decree exclusive possession of entireties property to the wife, for use as her residence, even though subsequent to the divorce such property will be held by the parties as tenants in common. The husband is thereby sufficiently denied the right to immediate possession which, pursuant to a long-standing rule, operates as a bar to his entitlement to present partition." 230 So.2d 34 at 35 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hoskin v. Hoskin