Smith v. Hayden

This is an appeal and a cross-appeal from a district court judgment quieting title to two parcels of real property in Buffalo Creek, Colorado, based on principles of adverse possession. The disputes arose when surveys disclosed that the true boundary lines separating three properties on which mountain cabins had been constructed were not where the owners or their predecessors in title had long believed them to be. The district court determined that ownership had been established by adverse possession consistent with the boundaries that historically had been believed to be correct. We affirm…