Tapley v. Claxton

1. "A plaintiff in ejectment must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of the defendant's title." Code, § 33-101. The only instrument in evidence that purported to transfer title to the disputed land to either the plaintiff or his deceased father, under whom he claimed, was a quitclaim deed, executed in 1939 by the heirs of the father to the plaintiff, which showed no title as against the defendants' prior deeds, and alleged possession at the time of the suit.

2. As to the plaintiff's alleged prescriptive title by twenty-years actual adverse possession, his own…