Allen v. Johnson

Opinion

LAVERY, C. J.

The defendants, Richard E. Johnson and Joanette Wright Johnson, appeal from the judgment, rendered after a trial to the court, determining that the plaintiff, Laurie J. Allen, had gained title to a portion of their property through adverse possession. The dispositive issue on appeal is whether the purchase by the plaintiff’s predecessor in title of lot 10A from the defendants’ predecessor in title and the circumstances surrounding that conveyance constituted an acknowledgment by the plaintiffs predecessor in title that the defendants’ predecessor in title held superior…