Sanborn v. South Florida Naval Stores Co.

Citations

• 75 Fla. 145
• 78 So. 428

Syllabus

<p>1. The limitation of four years provided by Section 591, General Statutes, 1996, by its terms applies only to suits for the recovery of the possession of the land; and it has no application to suits to remove cl'ouds from legal titles brought by a complainant in possession of the land of where the land is wild, unimproved and unoccupied.</p> <p>2. In a suit to quiet title to wild, unoccupied ¡and unimproved lands, where the complainants show a legal title and the defendants do not Show a superior title by adverse possession or otherwise, it is error to decree that title’ is in the defendants.</p> <p>3. Where title to wild, unoccupied and unimproved lands is shown'to be in' complainants and th|at' defendants have not acquired title by adverse possession or otherwise, the- complainants are not barred by laches of a right to quiet their title to the lands, because they have not paid taxes for a number of years (and defendants under a defective deed paid the taxes and took turpentine and timber from the land but made no improvement thereon.</p>