Preciado v. Wilde

Opinion

GILBERT, P. J.

Cotenants have equal possessory rights in land. For one cotenant to establish adverse possession against the other, more is required than to establish adverse possession against strangers.

Plaintiffs Leonard A. Preciado and Jennie R. Preciado appeal a judgment in favor of defendant Elizabeth R. Wilde on their quiet title action. We conclude, among other things, that the Preciados did not establish title by adverse possession. We affirm.

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

Leonard and Wilde, his niece, own two parcels of real property as tenants in common. A house originally stood on the…