Case ID: ohio-law-abs_6/html/0385-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "ALLEN, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

PURE OIL CO. v. TURNER.
    Ohio Supreme Court.
    No. 20718.
    Decided June 13, 1928.
    Error to Guernsey Appeals.
    Judgment reversed and judgment for plaintiff in error.
    45. ADVERSE POSSESSION — 997 Real Estate — 708 Leases. -
    1. Acts of possession need not be performed throughout entire tract.
    2. Actual and open possession means possession upon part of person occupying premises.
   ALLEN, J.

1. Acts of possession need not be performed throughout the entire tract leased in order to charge a subsequent lessee with notice of the adverse claim.

2. The actual and open possession which is required to validate a defective lease means possession which is actual and open upon the part of the person occupying the premises.

(Day, Kinkade, Robinson, Jones and Matthias, JJ., concur.)