Larsen v. Onesite
Utah Supreme Court
Appeal from Third District Court, Salt Lake County, Hon. Ogden Hiles, Judge. Action in ejectment for a certain specific strip of land. Answer and cross-complaint by defendant setting up adverse possession. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appealed.
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Appeal from Third District Court, Salt Lake County, Hon. Ogden Hiles, Judge. Action in ejectment for a certain specific strip of land. Answer and cross-complaint by defendant setting up adverse possession. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appealed. Payment of taxes on a tract of land by its lot and block description, as in this case, only pays the taxes on the lot according to its true boundaries when ascertained, and is not a compliance with the statute regulating adverse claims requiring payment of the taxes upon the tract claimed. Jones Real Property, Secs. 354-56; Mg Donald v.…
1Opinion of the CourtMiNER, J.
This action in ejectment was commenced in April, 1896. The complaint alleges that the plaintiffs have been the owners and in possession of lot 1, block 17, Five Acre Plat “A” Big Field Survey, since March 5th, 1879, and that defendant has been the owner and in possession of lot 20, in the same block, since July 7, 1884.
Plaintiffs claim that the defendant wrongfully entered upon and withheld from plaintiffs a strip of land on the north line of said lot 1, in the northeast corner thereof, running to the east line of the Jordan canal right of way, being about four feet wide and seventy feet…
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