Silva v. Wimpenney

These are two writs of entry, dated August 22, 1882, for the same piece of land in Edgartown. The court below ruled that the tenants had not acquired a title by adverse possession, and we think that the ruling was right. The demandant was the tenants’ father, and the only overt acts relied on, granting that he was chargeable with notice of all of them, were all such that he was entitled to assume that they were *254done in subordination to his title. So far from there being anything which gave him unequivocal notice that his children were setting themselves up against him, or were being set up…