Hagman v. Meher Mount Corp.

Opinion

HOFFSTADT, J.*

In this boundary dispute, one neighbor seeks to quiet title by adverse possession to an adjoining piece of his neighbor’s land that he inadvertently fenced in and later improved. The unusual twist is that the neighboring land on which the adverse possession took place belongs to a nonprofit religious organization. We hold that a nonprofit religious organization’s status as a “public benefit corporation” does not make it a “public entity” immune from adverse possession under Civil Code section 1007. We further hold that a nonprofit religious organization’s “welfare…