Greer v. Higgins
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Shawnee District Court. Ejectment, brought by Greer and Moore, against Higgins. All necessary facts and proceedings are stated in the subjoined opinion. Plaintiffs bring the case here. 1. Higgins lived on the land with his son, and Stafford, for more than a year before the date of his deed, and there was no change in the character or mode of his possession and occupancy after the making of the alleged deed to him, until after plaintiffs’ deed was recorded.
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Error from Shawnee District Court. Ejectment, brought by Greer and Moore, against Higgins. All necessary facts and proceedings are stated in the subjoined opinion. Plaintiffs bring the case here. 1. Higgins lived on the land with his son, and Stafford, for more than a year before the date of his deed, and there was no change in the character or mode of his possession and occupancy after the making of the alleged deed to him, until after plaintiffs’ deed was recorded. This was not sufficient notice to the plaintiffs: 16 N. H. 385; 32 N. H. 382; 8 N. H. 264; 22 Me. 312; 17 Conn. 594; 6 Cush.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Horton, C. J.:
Statement of the case. This was an action of ejectment, brought by the plaintiffs in error to recover a quarter-section of land. The action was commenced on the 2d of October 1869, was afterward tried by a jury, and resulted in a ver¿jc¡; an(j judgment for the defendant. From this judgment a writ of error was prosecuted to this court by the *423plaintiffs, and that judgment was reversed. (Greer v. Higgins, 8 Kas. 519.) At the June term 1873 of the district court of Shawnee county, the action was again tried, and again resulted in a verdict…
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