Where a grantor transfers to his grantee possession of a strip of land which he has occupied without title, adjoining, enclosed with and used as a part of the lot described in the deed, the possession of the grantor should be added to that of his grantee in computing the twenty years in which a title to the strip may be acquired by limitation. Following Wishart v. McKnight, ante, 356.
One is not less a disseisor or prevented from acquiring a title by lapse of time because his occupation of a strip of land is under the belief that it is embraced in his deed.
HOLMES, C.J.
The main point of this case is covered by Wishart v. McKnight, ante, 356. The demandant was disseised continuously for more than twenty years. Pub. Sts. c. 196, § 1. It is not material, if it be a fact, that the successive occupants of the tenant's lot claimed the disputed strip only because they were under a mistake as to where the boundary line would fall when the deeds were applied to the land. Harrison v. Dolan, 172 Mass. 395. Bond v. O'Gara, 177 Mass. 139.
Judgment for tenant affirmed.