Hargis v. Flesher Petroleum Co.

I think the evidence establishes an adverse holding upon the part of appellee for more than the statutory period of limitation and concur in the conclusions upholding its title to the land in controversy. This is pred - icated on the facts that when James H. Hargis conveyed the fee in the land to the St. Helen’s Land, Coal & Iron Company on May 7, 1887, by deed in which the will of Amanda Hargis was referred to as the source of title and placed his grantee in possession, both parties to that deed asserted a title and possession adverse to that of the remainderman, and thereby the statute of…