Jagoe v. Carrier Lumber & Manufacturing Co.

Citations

• 119 Miss. 564
• 81 So. 132

Syllabus

<p>Adverse Possession. Wild lands. Sufficiency of evidence.</p> <p>Under the facts in this case, which was a contest in equity over the title to a tract of wild land between plaintiffs who had a perfect paper title, and had been in adverse possession of the land for many years, on the one side, and a lumber company, which, having failed in negotiations to purchase the land from the parties in possession, bought up an old tax title standing in the name of a third party, the court held that the evidence showing adverse possession by the plaintiff was sufficient to entitle them to a decree.</p>