Rohrer v. Allen

I respectfully dissent.

In 1940 John and Hilma Allen, husband and wife, moved onto the land in question. They cleared one acre in the northwest corner and built a small log cabin, and thereafter cleared about an acre per year. Between 1940 and 1958 they never used the entire parcel at any one time, but rotated the planting of a garden. The only part of the parcel continuously used was about one and one-quarter acres around the house site. The Allens did sharecrop some of the land from 1940 until 1958 when they moved to Fairhope. A mentally retarded relative of John Allen’s lived in a log barn…