DUNPHY v. SULLIVAN


117 U.S. 346 (1886)

DUNPHY v. SULLIVAN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 22, 1886.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. M.F. Morris for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Joseph K. Toole for defendant in error. Mr. Edwin W. Toole was with him on the brief.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE delivered the opinion of the court.

This judgment is affirmed. The jury has found as a fact that Mrs. Sullivan, the defendant in error, was in the actual possession of the property, under a claim of title, from August 2, 1870, until October 4, 1877. This, of course, includes the time from the 22d of February, 1873, when it is claimed the adverse title of Dunphy began, to October 4, 1877. It sufficiently appears that the court directed the jury...

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