Peoples v. Hagaman
Court of Appeals of Tennessee
1Opinion of the CourtMcAMIS, J.
This case involves a strip of land ap-. proximately 4 feet in width along a driveway between Lots 24 and 25 in Block 59 of the Pairmount Addition on Maryland Avenue in Bristol.
The Chancellor held that the strip in controversy fell within the boundaries of Lot 25 owned by complainant; that defendants, as the owners of Lot 24, therefore had no color of title to the disputed strip but that they had used the driveway with its encroachment on complainant’s lot for more than seven years openly, adversely and notoriously and that complainant’s suit to oust them of their possessory rights is barred…
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