Hall v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.

Atkinson, Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) “Adverse possession of lands, under written evidence of title, for seven years, shall give a like title by prescription; but if such written title is forged or fraudulent, and notice thereof is brought home to the claimant before or at the time of the commencement of his possession, no prescription shall be based thereon.” Code, § 85-407. “ Possession, to be the foundation for a prescription, must not have originated in fraud; but direct evidence of bona fides is not re quired. A presumption of good faith arises from adverse possession.”…