Westfall v. Washlagel

Citations

• 200 Pa. 181
• 49 A. 941
• 1901 Pa. LEXIS 461

Syllabus

<p>Statute of limitations—Act of April 22,1856, P. L. 532—Adverse possession of real estate.</p> <p>Where persons claim real estate under a will and their successors in title have continuously exercised rights of ownership over vacant and unfenced lots for forty-three years, paid the taxes and assessments, for municipal improvements, and filled up the lots to the established grade, they have acquired a good marketable title against a person to whom the testator conveyed the land in his lifetime by a deed which was not recorded until long after the testator’s death. The Act of April 22,1856, P. L. 532, providing for the assertion of a right of entry within thirty years is a bar to any claim under this deed.</p>