Webbs v. Hynes

Judge Simfsob

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The limitation of seven years, could not afford any protection to the defendants in the Court below, because there had been no settlement on the land in controversy,. either by themselves or their tenants; and this act applies only to cases in which the possession has been acquired, and continued by actual settlement and residence upon the land. Nor can they derive any benefit from the fact, that those under whom they claim, resided on contiguous land, inasmuch as it did not adjoin the land in dispute, which was a, distinct and separate tract.

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