Mecimore v. Cothren

McCRODDEN, Judge.

Plaintiffs initiated this action to establish a dirt and gravel easement across defendants’ property as a means to get to and from their land. Defendants answered and counterclaimed, alleging slander of title. On appeal, defendants pose questions of whether plaintiffs’ evidence of adverse possession was sufficient to take their case to the jury and whether the trial court properly dismissed defendants’ counterclaim.

Plaintiffs’ evidence tended to show that on 2 January 1942, G.E. Mecimore, father of the plaintiffs Wilburn Reed Mecimore (plaintiff Mecimore) and Dorothy Mecimore…