Seaside Properties, Inc. v. State Road Department

This is an appeal by the plaintiff below, Seaside Properties, Inc. [hereinafter called Seaside] from a final decree for the defendant in the action, State Road Department of the State of Florida [hereinafter called Road Department],

The question at issue between the parties concerned the ownership of a section of State Road 4-A, also known as Old Dixie Plighway, in Monroe County, Florida, to which Seaside claimed ownership by a deed dated September 26, 1951, and by virtue of adverse possession for more than seven years. The trial court found that title to the property in question was vested in…