Ramsey v. Ogden

Citations

• 23 Or. 347
• 31 P. 778
• 1893 Ore. LEXIS 29

Syllabus

<p>Boundaries — Adverse Possession — Statute op Limitations. — Where a person under mistake as to the boundaries enters upon and occupies land not embraced in his title, and claims it as his own for the statutory period, he becomes invested with title thereto by possession, although his entry and occupation was by mistake. Caufield v. Clark, 17 Or. 474, approved and followed.</p> <p>Idem. — If one by mistake encloses the land of another and claims it as his own, his actual possession will work a disseisin of the true owner; but if, in ignorance of the true boundary, he makes a mistake and encloses the land of another, claiming, however, only to the true line as it may subsequently be ascertained, his possession of the land is not adverse.</p>