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· 12/18/1865

Horbach v. Porter; Horbach v. Brown

Citations

  • 154 U.S. 549
  • 14 S. Ct. 1160
  • 18 L. Ed. 30
  • 1865 U.S. LEXIS 460

Syllabus

<p>When two parties acquire title to the same tract of land from the same grantor, if the later grantee takes his deed with knowledge that the first grantee is in possession of the land, and has enclosed it, and is cultivating it, he is chargeable with knowledge of all the equitable rights of the first grantee with which an inquiry would have put him in possession.</p>

Judges: Miller

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