Showalter v. Pantaleo

OPINION BY

SHOGAN, J.:

Appellants, Harry D. Showalter and Christine Showalter, appeal from the judgment entered in favor of Appellee, John N. Pantaleo, on February 3, 2010, following the trial court’s determination that a landowner’s bankruptcy defeated Appellants’ claim of adverse possession. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

The trial court set forth the relevant facts and underlying procedural history of this matter as follows:

[Appellants] purchased a home located at 424 West Main Street, in West Ali-quippa, Pennsylvania, on July 31, 1979. Within the first week of owning this home,…