Knowles v. Golden Stream Fishing Club, Inc.

This is a boundary line dispute. The parties are adjoining landowners. The Fishing Club bases its claim on record title, and on the fact that from 1913, the Club or its predecessors in title, had paid the taxes on the property. The Knowles claimed title by adverse possession. They contended that a fence marked the true boundary line and that they had for more than forty years exercised control over all the land lying east of the fence, including the disputed portion.

The evidence shows that the subject property is densely wooded. A civil engineer prepared a plat of the property in 1933 and…