Simms v. Purnell

By JUDGE WILLIAM H. LEDBETTER, JR.

In this chancery suit, the plaintiff claims title by adverse possession to a variable-width strip of land, and he claims a prescriptive easement along a gravel road that traverses the defendants’ property. The commissioner in chancery to whom this cause was referred has filed a report rejecting both claims, and the plaintiff has filed exceptions.

Simms owns and resides on a 23.8-acre tract (the "Simms tract") on Route 208 in a rural section of Spotsylvania County. He acquired the property from his mother in 1975. His mother acquired the property from Simms’s…