Lee v. Front Royal-Riverton Improvement Co.

By JUDGE ROBERT K. WOLTZ

This suit seeks to quiet title to property which complainant claims to own. The suit is contested by the special receiver of the corporate defendant who asserts that title remains in the corporation, that the property is in custodia legis, as a consequence of which no adverse possession against the corporation will run in favor of the complainant, thereby frustrating the quieting of title.

Though there has been no evidentiary hearing, from the pleadings and uncontested statements in the memoranda of counsel it appears that the subject matter was titled in the name of…