Fieldhouse v. Leisburg
Wyoming Supreme Court
Error to the District Court, Carbon County-, Hojst. David H. Craig, Judge. Suit brought by Katie Leisburg against Sarah T. Field-house involving the title and right to possession to a part of a town lot, which the plaintiff claimed by adverse possession. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff. Defendant brought error. The facts are stated in the opinion.
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Error to the District Court, Carbon County-, Hojst. David H. Craig, Judge. Suit brought by Katie Leisburg against Sarah T. Field-house involving the title and right to possession to a part of a town lot, which the plaintiff claimed by adverse possession. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff. Defendant brought error. The facts are stated in the opinion. The railroad company having conveyed the whole of lot 12 to the grantors of plaintiff in error, the fact that the company or its tenants continued in possession of part of the lot would not constitute a holding by adverse possession, but their…
1Opinion of the Court
Beard, Justice.
The defendant in error commenced this action against the plaintiff in error, in the District Court of Carbon County, June 13, 1904. and in an amended petition filed June 21, 1904, alleged in substance: that the defendant in error was the owner of lot ri, in block 46, in the Union Pacific Railway Company’s Fourth addition to the town of Rawlins, together with the improvements thereon, and for a long time had been in possession thereof; that said lot is forty feet in width, and one hundred and thirty-two feet in length, extending north and south; that defendant in error and her…
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