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LAWRENCE DOBBELAAR, complainant-appellant, v. JOHN EDWARD HUGHES et al.,defendants-respondents.

1. The original owner of the premises in question having died intestate, leaving no widow or children, or brothers or sisters, or father or mother, the title to the land descended to his only uncle, to the exclusion of his cousins.

2. Complainant having done or said nothing which might constitute notice to his neighbors or the world at large, or to the true owners of the property, that he claimed ownership or the right to possession by any title other than that of tenant, there was no adverse possession on which he can predicate title.

3. The statute of limitations does not run in favor of one claiming title by adverse possession during the minority of an infant to whom the owner's property descended.

PER CURIAM.

The decree appealed from will be affirmed, for the reasons given in the opinion filed by Vice-Chancellor Bigelow.

For affirmance — THE CHIEF-JUSTICE, TRENCHARD, PARKER, CAMPBELL, LLOYD, CASE, BODINE, DALY, DONGES, VAN BUSKIRK, KAYS, HETFIELD, DEAR, WELLS, JJ. 14.

For reversal — None.

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DOBBELAAR v. HUGHES
(Oct 19, 1931)