Alford v. Rodgers

FOSTER, Justice.

The question of legal importance in this case may be thus stated and explained. Plaintiff, suing to recover a small plot of land approximately two acres, asserts title acquired by adverse possession for the prescription period of twenty years without color of title, claim of purchase or inheritance, or other condition required by Title 7, section 828, Code of 1940, but upon the mistaken assumption that it was a part of a tract which he had bought and occupied throughout those years. He sold, conveyed and surrendered possession of the land according to the description by which…