Berry v. . Coppersmith

This appeal challenges the judgment below mainly with respect to: (1) The competency of certain testimony admitted as evidence relating to possession. (2) The sufficiency of all the evidence to constitute adverse possession. (3) The absence of seizin or possession within twenty years next before the institution of the action. The challenge is not sustained.

1. Witnesses were permitted to testify, over defendants’ objection, that Mercer was in possession of the land in question fifty years ago, and stayed in possession until Williams and Needham bought it, that they stayed in possession ten or…