Court Opinion

ID: 9766614
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 04:55:03.57413+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:24.071645
License: Public Domain

Swepston, Justice.
*55I concur in tlie opinion prepared by Justice Burnett in the above case for the reasons stated therein. I think it well'to add as a practical matter that it would be utterly unworkable to hold that the mere registration of a deed by one tenant in common purporting to convey the entire property to a third party-would be an ouster of other tenants in common, in the absence of possession by said grantee under said deed so as to amount to adverse possession.
Such a rule would require every tenant in common to go to the Register’s Office at frequent intervals to examine the records for such a deed. That office would be so flooded with tenants in common that the Register would be unable to function.
It is the adverse-possession under the deed that effects an ouster, but not merely the deed subsequent to and not constituting a part of the chain of title of a tenant in common.