Chapin v. Hunt

This case, which is ejectment brought by Chapin and Foss against defendants in error, involves, the effect of a ten years’ possession under a tax-title.

The defendants’ grantors went into possession of the premises in question under a tax deed in April or May, 1865, more than ten years before this suit was brought. The possession was such as is usual in case of farming lands, consisting of gradual planting and clearing kept up continuously. The original possessors did not build upon the land for a year or two. But their possession was such as to be open and notorious and adverse to all the…