Jenkins v. Bates

This suit involves the question whether open and notorious possession of land under claim of title is notice to a subsequent purchaser for value of the equities of the possessor.

John Sitzman was on February 28, 1946, the owner of what we call two tracts of land facing the paved highway, the east tract actually measuring 202 feet east and west and extending from the highway south to the railroad, and the west tract, the measurements of which arc' not significant, abutted the first mentioned tract on the west. These two tracts had previously been owned by different parties. On the east tract,…