Brown v. Peterson Development Co.

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• holding that plaintiffs had acquired title to a parcel of land 70 feet wide and 969 feet long
• explaining that, once title vested in the predecessor through boundary by acquiescence, “[t]he legal title to the disputed strip remained in [the predecessor] or his grantee or successor in interest”
• explaining that \[the fact that the plaintiff lot buyers had notice of the actual lot boundaries ... would have been fatal to their action if they had not received a conveyance of the legal title to the disputed strip of land\ from the encroaching landowner
• “The title lost by defendants’ predecessors by virtue of the operation of the doctrine of boundary by acquiescence did not revert to the defendants nor to the former owners of the record title when the surveyors established the record title line.... ”
• \The later quitclaim deeds passed the legal title to [the plaintiffs].\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).