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Author: {"author": "DAY, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 232
    No. 19340
    Edward P. Zipf v. Mary E. Delgarn.
    Error to the Court of Appeals of Franklin county.
    480. EVIDENCE — Expert testimony of civil engineer as to adjacent lot line, not made incompetent by 2797 GC. providing that no re-survey by other than county surveyor shall be legal testimony.
    947. PRESCRIPTION — Where successive occupants hold land continuously and adversely, such periods amounting to over 21 years, the occupations may be united so as to make possible the ripening into title by prescription the land so occupied.
   DAY, J.

1. The expert testimony of civil engineers assist the court in deciding a controversy as to the location of a disputed line between adjacent lot owners, is not rendered incompetent by reason of Section 2797, General Code, providing that no re-survey by any person except a county surveyor, or his deputy, shall be considered as legal testimony.

_ 2. Where there is privity between successive occupants such as • grantor and grantee holding a strip of ground continuously and adversely, such successive periods amounting to over twenty-one years, the occupations may be united or tacked to each other to make up the time of adverse holding sufficient to ripen into a title by prescription to the land so occupied, other elements necessary to make prescription title being present. (McNeely v. Langen, 22 Ohio St., 32, approved and followed.)

Judgment affirmed.

Jones, Matthias, Allen, Kinkade and Robinson, JJ., concur.