Miklasz v. G.W. Stone, Inc.

GETTY, Judge.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County denying appellant’s claim to certain land by adverse possession. The trial court held that appellant had established title to that portion of the property that she had enclosed by fencing, but denied her claim to adjoining land that she had improved by filling, seeding and removing certain buildings. The court considered the improvements as “gratuitous acts ... to protect [her] own property.” Appellant contends that the trial court erred by considering appellant’s subjective intent as dispositive of…