Jordon v. Warren

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• “Evidence of acts by a cotenant not inconsistent with co-tenancy, such as using the land and paying taxes on it, do not constitute an ouster of the other cotenants.”
• the tenant claiming exclusive title to the property by adverse possession must meet the “burden of establishing that the other cotenants were unequivocally ousted by actual notice or conduct equivalent thereto”
• “The cotenant in possession must effect an ouster of the other cotenant of an unequivocal nature and distinctly hostile to the rights of the other so that the intent to possess adversely is clear and unmistakable.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).