Burgess v. Leverett and Associates

Plaintiff commenced this action to recover treble damages for malicious injury to real property. Interveno-r filed his petition claiming title and asking title be quieted in him. By way of answer and cross-petition plaintiff claimed title by adverse possession and intervenor’s cause of action was barred by the statute of limitations and laches. The issues thus joined were transferred to equity for trial. The able trial court entered a decree in favor of plaintiff. The intervenor appeals urging five propositions for reversal.

This controversy finds its origin in 1925 when the plat of Grandview…