Lazoff v. Padgett

This is an adverse possession case in which the plaintiff appeals 1 from the judgment of the trial court in favor of the defendants. 2 The disputed property is a trapezoidal parcel containing less than one tenth of an acre which the plaintiff alleged in her complaint she maintained as a side yard to her residence and to which she claimed title by adverse possession. The defendants are the record owners of the parcel and are the plaintiffs adjoining neighbors. The trial court found that beginning in 1957 the plaintiffs predecessor in title, McFadden, improved the disputed property, planting on…