65 P. 255 | Kan. | 1901
The opinion of the court was delivered by
We are compelled to affirm the judgment of the court below on the authority of Anderson v. Burnham, 52 Kan. 454, 34 Pac. 1056, and Guinn v. Spillman, 52 id. 496, 35 Pac. 13. In the former case this court held that “possession of land
The claim made by the defendant in error is that the marking of the corners of the land and the plowing of the hedgerow along the east line, which with the connecting lines completely enclosed the eighty, were continuing acts. His acts indicating ownership of any portion of the land must be referred to and interpreted by this claim. The erection of buildings upon and the plowing and cultivating of portions of the land were an assertion of title to the entire tract indicated by the boundaries marked. From yea to
It is further suggested by the plaintiff that the defendant, being aware of the fact that his brother was negotiating for the purchase of this land from the plaintiff and assenting to the same “provided his brother also paid him for his right or claim to the land,” thereby acknowledged the title to be in the plaintiff and by such acknowledgment arrested the running of the statute of limitations, if it had commenced to run in favor of the defendant. It is undoubtedly true that the statute would have been suspended by any act which would have amounted to a recognition of plaintiff’s ownership of the land by the defendant. We do not think the facts shown amount to such a recognition. The most that can be said is that the defendant was willing that his brother should purchase the title held by the plaintiff, the brother having arranged, in case such purchase should be consummated, .to buy out the defendant.
The judgment of the court below must be affirmed.