Bennett v. Morrison

Citations

• 120 Pa. 390
• 21 W.N.C. 457
• 14 A. 264
• 1888 Pa. LEXIS 494

Syllabus

<p>1. The mere recovery of a judgment by a vendor of lands in an action of ejectment against the vendee to enforce payment of the purchase money, is not of itself sufficient to make the possession of the defendant, continued thereafter, adverse and hostile to the vendor, in view of the statute of limitations.</p> <p>2. A defendant in ejectment testified to a continuous possession -first taken by him under a parol purchase and payment more than twenty-one years before suit, and the payment of taxes during that period: Held, that the evidence should have been submitted to the jury in support of his claim of title by adverse possession.</p>