Knickerbocker v. Bangs

Citations

• 93 Kan. 733
• 145 P. 820
• 1915 Kan. LEXIS 15

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Quieting Title — Minor Remaindermen of Life Estate — Limitation of Actions — Adverse Possession. Certain devisees held the life estate in a tract of land which was ordered sold for the payment of debts. One of the life tenants at the time the sale was ordered and notice thereof served had living an infant son a few months old on whom no service was made, and later certain other children were born, who with the son already referred to became remaindermen. The deed as well as the order of sale purported to cover the entire title to the land. The grantees of the purchaser remained in actual, visible, open and adverse possession, claiming title as against the world until all the minors had become of age, and until more than two years thereafter in case of the youngest, and had made lasting and valuable improvements, no proceeding having been begun to set aside the administrators’ deed or to assert title to the land. Held, that such grantees are en- . titled to have their title quieted as against the remainder-men, the defense of the latter being barred -by the statute of limitation.</p>