Ocala Northern Railroad v. Malloy

Citations

• 68 Fla. 430
• 67 So. 93

Syllabus

<p>1. In an action of ejectment, where the plaintiff introduces documentary evidence tracing his title to the land in'controversy through successive deeds back to a certain'railroad corporation, and also introduces documentary evidence showing that such land had been approved by the U. S. to another railroad corporation, and fails to 'connect his title with any title emanating from the corporation to which' such land was approved, he cannot recover.</p> <p>2. An appellate court will take judicial notice of its own opinions, and also of its own records, so far as they appertain to the case before it for consideration, but will not take judicial notice in deciding one case of what may be contained in the record of another and distinct case, unless it be brought to the attention of the court by being made a part of the record in the case under consideration.</p> <p>3. The plaintiff in ejectment must recover upon the strength of his own title and not on the weakness of his adversary’s title.</p>