367 So. 2d 944 - Guyse v. Chappell’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. ““Plaintiffs theory of the case seems to be that any recognition by former owners of the two tracts of a ‘made line,’ wherever it might be, was binding upon them, although their respective deeds and titles were based on the lines of the government survey, and regardless of the absence of an adverse possession up to such line. “This is not the law, for recognition by adjoining owners of a false line as the boundary between them is without effect, unless the party claiming beyond the true line also holds hostile possession up to the false line until the bar of the statute is complete. Even a formal agreement between them as to such a line could not, of itself, vest title in one of them beyond the true line to which each actually owns. Certainly it could not have the effect of transferring one part of a government survey 40 to the 40 just below it, although acquiescence in such a line would prima facie indicate its verity.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jacks v. Taylor

2. “actual, hostile, open, notorious, exclusive and continuous [possession] for the statutory period.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Nelson v. Garrard