Tuggle v. Southern Ry. Co.
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM SHELBY. Appeal from the Chancery Court of Shelby County to the Court of Civil Appeals, and by certiorari to the Court of' Civil Appeals from the Supreme Court. —Hon. F. H. Heiskell, Chancellor.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Neil
The complainant alleges in her hill that she had been in adverse possession of the house and lot in controversy for more than seven years at the time her bill was filed. During a part of this period she and her husband occupied it together, and it is insisted by the defendant that she could not tack her *277possession to that of her husband, and without doing this seven years conld not he made ont under the evidence. It is true, as matter of law, that she could not tack her possession to that of her husband, hut it appears that more than seven years before the suit was brought he gave to his wife…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Kittel v. StegerTennessee Supreme Court · 1908
- Walker v. FoxTennessee Supreme Court · 1886
- Knoxville Ry. & Light Co. v. O'FallenTennessee Supreme Court · 1914
3Cited by7 opinions
- Campbell v. Lewisberg & Northern R. R.Tennessee Supreme Court · 1930
- Preston v. SmithCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 1956
- Peoples v. HagamanCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 1948
- Sneed v. City of MemphisCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 1927
- Culwell v. CulwellCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 1939
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