Davis v. Townsend

This case arose from a property ownership dispute in Autauga County. Plaintiffs/Appellees, undisputed record title holders, brought a quiet title action against Defendants/Appellants, who claimed ownership through the doctrine of adverse possession. The trial court, after hearing conflicting ore tenus testimony, quieted title in Plaintiffs. Defendants appeal, contending that the trial court erred as a matter of law in excluding from evidence the unprobated and unrecorded will through which they claimed color of title, and, additionally, that the judgment was against the great weight and…