Rohrer v. Allen

The defendants appeal from an adverse judgment in the plaintiffs’ action to quiet title to a parcel of land which plaintiffs claimed by adverse possession by prescription. See Fitts v. Alexander, 277 Ala. 372, 170 So.2d 808 (1965). We affirm.

The land in question consists of ten acres located in Baldwin County. The evidence for the plaintiffs showed that the defendants, Frederick Rohrer and others, derived legal title through one Walter Pederson, and that Rohrer and Pederson had paid the taxes on the parcel. In 1940 John and Hilma Allen, husband and wife, moved onto the land. They cleared one…