Lockhart v. Corcoran

HOLMES, Judge.

This is an adverse possession case.

The Lockharts filed suit against the Cor-corans in the trial court, claiming title to fifteen acres of land by adverse possession. The Corcorans filed a counterclaim for damages allegedly sustained when they were temporarily restrained by the trial court from cutting timber on the subject land.

Following a trial in which the evidence was presented to the trial court ore tenus, the trial court entered a judgment in which it found that the Lockharts had not established that they owned the fifteen acres. The trial court further ruled in favor of…