Robinette v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “It is the appellant’s principal contention that neither the fence nor the improvements touched the three lots to which the appellant has paper title. This is true. It happens that the three lots claimed by the appellant lie near the center of the tract; the perimeter fence at its closest point is about 150 feet north of the lots in dispute. This circumstance, however, does not refute [appellee’s] claim. Hostility of possession is to be judged by the views and intentions of the person occupying the property, not by those of the landowner whose tide is being extinguished .... It was enough for the appellee to erect a single fence encircling the entire tract; he was not required to subdivide his claim by the construction of cross fences conforming to the record ownership of the interior lots. The appellant was put on notice of the hostile claim by the fact that his access to his lots was obstructed from every direction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 63 Ark. App. 212 - McLaughlin v. Sicard