Walker v. Steffes

Fish, C. 3.

1. Where in an action involving the title to land both parties claimed under common grantors, it was unnecessary to prove title in such common grantors. Any inaccuracy in the charge in referring to this subject was doubtless rendered harmless by charging that it was unnecessary to go back of such grantors.

2. Title by prescription is the right which a possessor acquires to property by reason of the continuance of his possession for a period of time fixed by law. Civil Code, § 4163:(a) A definition of a prescriptive title as being a title that ripens where the property has been held…