Court Opinion

ID: 9681067
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 07:43:29.90633+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:32.051310
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing
We do not agree with appellees that the opinion testimony of certain witnesses, probably inadmissible, that D. P. Hurr was a good man and would not claim by limitation land that did not belong to him, constitutes any evidence of probative force. The same witnesses also testified that he would claim what he thought belonged to him. The evidence is uncontroverted that he claimed everything within his fences and there is no evidence that he did not think he owned all the land within such fences. There is no evidence that D. P. Hurr rendered for taxes such land at any time prior to 1919, which was after he had matured a good limitation title. The fact that beginning with the year 1919 the tract of land was assessed in his name or in the name of his estate after his death as 320 acres constitutes no evidence of probative force that the claim of D. P. Hurr did not extend to the fence line during the period he matured the first ten year limitation title. The later assessment in his name and in the name of his estate of 320 acres would not constitute any evidence more than a mere scintilla at the most.
Motion for rehearing overruled.