Harris v. Mandeville

Bell, Presiding Justice.

1. Where a married woman died intestate, leaving her husband and their seven children as her only heirs at law, the husband and the children each inherited one-eighth undivided interest in the realty owned by the intestate at the time of her death, and they became tenants in common as to such realty. Code § 113-902.

2. While actual adverse possession of land for twenty years will ripen into a good title by prescription, permissive possession can not be the foundation of a prescription until an adverse claim and actual notice to the other party. Code, §§ 85-406, 85-402;…