Franklin v. Wilson

SHORES, Justice.

Plaintiff/appellant (Franklin) filed his complaint on December 3, 1977, seeking to *432recover certain real property to which he claimed legal title by virtue of a deed.

The defendant (Rosa Mae Wilson) filed an answer with a general denial and alleged affirmatively that she had possessed the property since November, 1965, built a house on it, and held the property actually and openly “in opposition to all the world.”

Mrs. Wilson died during the pendency of this suit and her two minor children were substituted as defendants, who adopted the answer theretofore filed by their mother.…