Harris v. Sconce’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
October 2018
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Flesh v. Lindsay · Foster v. Wallace · More v. Perry · Deland v. Vanstone · Cochran v. Whitesides
Most-quoted passages
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“All the evidence concedes that, at the date of the alleged trespasses, the defendants were in the adverse possession of the lands under a claim of title. This action, therefore, under the decisions in this state, could not have been maintained against them even if the legal title were in the plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lewis v. Mason
How this case has been treated — in progress
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