Sawyer v. Sargent

Citations

• 2 Cal. Unrep. 480
• 7 P. 120
• 1885 Cal. LEXIS 832

Syllabus

<p>Landlord and Tenant—Adverse Possession by Tenant.—A tenant is estopped to deny his landlord’s title, and such estoppel continues, not to the end of his term merely, but to the end of his possession; or, where there has been a repudiation of the tenancy, and a consequent adverse holding by the tenant, until the statute of limitations has run in his favor; and such an adverse possession cannot be set up without a surrender of possession as tenant.</p>