Madison v. Gordon

How courts have described this case

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• holding that possession as tenant “was neither exclusive nor unequivocal” and did not impute notice of his claims and was compatible with another’s ownership assertion
• holding that bona fide-purchaser status is affirmative defense in title dispute
• noting that to receive special protection as BFP, “one must acquire property in good faith, for value, and without notice of any third-party claim or interest”
• stating that a person is a bona fide purchaser for value when the person acquires property in good faith, for value, and without notice of constructive or actual notice of a third-party claim
• defining a bona fide purchaser as one who “acquire[s] property in good faith, for value, and without notice of any third-party claim or interest”
• fmding actual notice of mineral lease when third party personally viewed recorded lease prior to executing lease on same property

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).