Jones v. Hughes

Citations

• 2 Monag. 590
• 16 A. 849
• 1889 Pa. LEXIS 1383

Syllabus

<p>Where one has acquired title by adverse possession, the mere fact that he had set back his fence more than twenty-one years before suit brought, thus throwing- the land in suit into a public road, will not vest title against him in an adjoining land-owner, where the title to the land upon which the road is laid is in dispute.</p> <p>In such case, the bar of the statute of limitations is to be decided by the weight of the evidence, and it is not error to refuse to charge that “the evidence to prove the bar of the statute of limitations must be free from doubt, or the parties are to be remitted to their legal rights.”</p>