72 Md. 393 | Md. | 1890
delivered the opinion of the Court.
The appellees recovered a judgment in ejectment against the appellants. The evidence at the trial showed neither title nor shadow of right in the appellants ; and yet, to our great regret, we are obliged to reverse the judgment.
So far as we are informed by the evidence in the record, the appellants’ claim rests upon the occupation of the premises in question by Catharine Fredericks. She appears to have been allowed to take charge of the property as a caretaker ; that is in the capacity of an agent of servant for the owners, receiving her authority from one Margery Lemon, who was also a caretaker, who had no interest in the property, and claimed none. Margery some years after Catharine had been appointed caretaker signed a certain deed purporting to convey a title to Catharine ; but she testifies that she call neither read nor write, that the deed was not read to her, that she did not know its meaning, and signed it under the belief that it would enable the appellees to obtain possession of the property. If the evidence in the record is true, there was no element of adverse possession whatever in the occupatio“n of the land by Catharine Fredericks, and
Judgment reversed.