Colorado Florida Land Co. v. Roebuck

Citations

• 78 Fla. 569
• 83 So. 502

Syllabus

<p>Where 'one enters upon a tract of land owned by the State and makes improvements upon it, builds a house and lives in it and plants trees upon the land and cultivates the soil, but makes no effort to purchase the land from the State, and waits to purchase from any one who may buy from the State, cannot assert against such purchaser the settlement upon and improvement of the land as the basis of an estoppel from the assertion of title. Such settler must rely upon a contract in writing for the conveyance of the land or biase his right to retain possession upon an estoppel growing 'out of such conduct on the part of the purchaser as induced the settler to take a position or pursue a course detrimental to him that he would not 'otherwise have taken or pursued.</p>