Court Opinion

ID: 7152808
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 16:03:03.232163+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:15:10.397271
License: Public Domain

Opinion by
Judge Hardin :
The evidence conduces to the conclusion that L. N. Sevians, the appellant’s insolvent vendor, sanction the erection of the wall by Howard as a party wall; and if his coparceners did not also agree to or sanction it, they conveyed their interest to him, and he conveyed them, together with his own, as one of D. Sevians’ heirs, after the erection of the wall, to the appellants. Thus acquiring the title we' do not see how he can occupy a more favorable position in this case than his vendor might if he had not conveyed the property.
It seems to us, if the attitude of the defendant was that of an amicable occupant of the ground in dispute under the agreement for the erection of a party wall, that agreement should protect him from a recovery in this action at law, instituted as it was, without a demand for possession or an offer to rescind the agreement on equitable terms; and if his position was that of an *444adverse holder and claimant of the ground when the appellant accepted the deed of L. N. Sevians, the plaintiff could not maintain his action. The instructions and rulings of the court with reference to the facts disclosed, if liable to some criticism, were, in our opinion, substantially correct, and the motion for a new trial was properly overruled.

Fish, for appellant.

Benton, for appellees.

Wherefore the judgment is affirmed.