Tsubota v. George Gunkel

This is an action to quiet title to a strip of land eighty feet wide that extends from east to west, bounded on the north by plaintiffs’ (appellants’) property and on the south by the properties of defendants (respondents). Plaintiffs, husband and wife, claim ownership by adverse possession.

Four groups of defendants 1 appeared in the action and denied plaintiffs’ claim of ownership by adverse possession. By cross-complaint, each claimed ownership of the portion of the disputed strip that adjoins his tract of land on the north.

The trial court entered judgment, determining (1) that plaintiffs…