26 Tex. Civ. App. 408 - Hill v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 1939
14 state decisions
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““It seems to us, therefore, that it is not so much a question of extent of claim on the part of those asserting limitation as it is a question of the sufficiency of the possession to send the true owner to the record to ascertain the extent of the claim. The taking and recording of a deed to land will not of itself put the statute in motion in favor of a claimant thereunder. Neither will adverse possession put the 5-years statute in motion, in the absence of a duly recorded deed and the payment of taxes. The true owner may ignore such a deed until his domain is actually invaded. The record of it is not notice of the adverse claim as to the true owner until some act is done upon the' ground amounting to adverse possession. When this occurs the owner must take notice of it, and the record of the deed immediately becomes constructive notice of the extent of the adverse holder’s claim.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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