Barrow v. D & B VALLEY ASSOCIATES, LLC

OPINION

Justice FLAHERTY, for the Court.

On August 1, 2001, Timothy and Barbara Barrow (the Barrows or plaintiffs) filed suit in the Superior Court for Newport County to quiet title to a strip of land of which D & B Valley Associates, LLC was the record owner. The Barrows claimed title through adverse possession or, in the alternative, through boundary by acquiescence. After a two-day bench trial, the trial justice held that the Barrows had failed to prove by clear and convincing evidence that they had met the requirements for adverse possession of the strip of land for the requisite statutory…