Lynch v. Brunner

David Newbern, Justice.

This quiet title action arose from a land ownership dispute. The chancellor decided that neither party had presented sufficient evidence to establish either record title or title by adverse possession to the tract of land in question. He quieted title in the parties equally as tenants in common, “based on the uncertainty of the record title and possession.” We hold that there was evidence before the court from which record title to the tract in question could have been determined. Once it was decided that neither party had established title by adverse possession, it was…