Sharpless & Wife v. Borough of West Chester

How courts have described this case

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• “Evidence insufficient to establish possession of a tract of vacant land in the country might be adequate proof of such possession of a lot in the center of a large city”
• \Evidence insufficient to establish exclusive possession of a tract of vacant land in the country might be adequate proof of such possession of a lot in the center of a large city\
• action by record owners to restrain adverse possessors from further trespass
• “The nature and extent of occupancy required to establish a right by adverse possession vary with the character of the land, the purposes for which it is adapted, and the uses to which it has been put”
• “The nature and the extent of occupancy required to establish a right by adverse possession vary with the character of the land, the purposes for which it is adapted, and the uses to which it has been put.”
• \The filling of the land and the erection of the wall were permanent improvements indicative of an intention upon the part of the occupants to use and appropriate the land to their own benefit and to the exclusion of all others.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).