Bates v. Southern Ry. Co.

(after stating the facts).

The appellant’s contention here is that the evidence shows, without dispute or room for adverse inference, that he and those under whom he claims have been in the actual, open, notorious, adverse possession of the strip of land in suit, for more than twenty years, and applying the doctrine of prescription he was entitled to the affirmative charge, which the court refused. The argument, as we understand it, concedes that the plaintiff established a paper title, by showing that Wesley Plattenburg, before he conveyed to the Selma & Meridian Railway Company, in 1866,…