Piles v. Gosman

OPINION

BARNES, Judge.

Case Summary

Floyd Piles appeals the trial court's denial of his quiet title action and the granting of the counterclaim for declaratory judgment filed by Thomas Gosman. We affirm.

Issue

Piles raises three issues. We address the dispositive issue, which we restate as whether the trial court properly concluded that Gosman had acquired the disputed property by adverse possession.

Facts

From 1967 until 1972, Harold and Virginia Newkirk owned approximately fifty acres of property adjacent to U.S. 831. in Edinburgh. In 1972, they subdivided the property into two parcels and sold a…