Schenck v. White

Citations

• 53 Ill. 358

Syllabus

<p>Limitation act or 1839—necessity of a continuous possession. Where a party claiming land under color of title, payment of taxes and seven years’ possession, held undisputed possession from 1858 until 1867, with the exception of the year 1864, during which year the owner of the paramount title held quiet possession by his tenants, but without the consent of the tax title claiinant, who paid the taxes during the whole of the time, it was held, the bar of the statute was incomplete, the tax title claimant having acquiesced in an interruption to his possession, making no effort to recover the possession by action at law.</p>