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HIGHTOWER v. RUSS

No. U-129.

295 So.2d 662 (1974)

Earl N. HIGHTOWER and Agnes Hightower, Appellants, v. T.F. RUSS and G.W. Taylor, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

June 13, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William F. Daniel of Cotten, Shivers, Gwynn & Daniel, Tallahassee, for appellants.

William J. Mongoven, Chipley, for appellees.

PER CURIAM.

Appellants initiated the instant case by filing an ejectment action against appellees. The jury found against appellants who have now appealed.

The law of this state has always commanded that the petitioner in an ejectment action recover on the strength of his own title and not on alleged weaknesses of the claims of others to the land.1 At the trial a land surveyor employed by appellants admitted that based on the legal...

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