Yoder v. Yoder
Yoder v. Yoder
Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered, by
Peter Yoder acknowledges the Ery title, that it is now owned by Benjamin Yoder, and that he is Benjamin’s tenant. Under such circumstances, neither Peter nor any of his family can claim to have obtained a title by adverse possession.
The Ery title was good against all but the Commonwealth; and Peter Burris got no shadow of title, as against the heir of Ery, when he bought from Ery’s widow. And when Burris died, and Peter Yoder married his widow and continued the possession of the Burris family, he was continuing a wrong against the heir of Ery. When, therefore, Mrs. Stahl arrived at age and asserted her title as heir of Ery, it would have been wrong for Peter Yoder to resist her claim, either for the Burris family or for himself. Being in conscience bound to abandon a possession wrongfully held,
Judgment affirmed.
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