Summers v. McOwen

BARFIELD, Judge.

Robert E. Summers, defendant in the trial court, appeals from a final judgment granting possession of certain real property to James Scott McOwen, plaintiff below.

*398McOwen purchased the western half of the northeast quarter of Section 26, Township 7 South, Range 17 East in Alachua County, Florida, in 1973. The property was surveyed by Wayne Chance at the time of the purchase.

Summers bought his property, which adjoins McOwen’s on the west, in 1982 and placed a mobile home on it near what he believed was his eastern boundary. McOwen felt that, according to Chance’s survey, the…