Hickingbottom v. Lehman

Citations

• 124 Miss. 682
• 87 So. 149

Syllabus

<p>1. Adverse Possession. Ten years’ actual adverse possession under claim of ownership vests title in occupant.</p> <p>Ten years’ actual adverse possession of land by a person claiming to be the owner thereof vests title in him thereto.</p> <p>2. Replevin. Title to land, cannot he tried.</p> <p>The title to land cannot be tried in an action of replevin.</p> <p>3. Replevin. Actual possession under claim of title sufficient for recovery of logs cut hy trespassers.</p> <p>Proof of actual possession of land under claim of title is sufficient to enable a plaintiff to recover possession of logs cut and removed from the land by the defendants, who in cutting the logs were mere trespassers.</p>