Bradley Outdoor, Inc. v. Colonial Bank

Colonial Bank brought this declaratory-judgment action to quiet title to a tract of land in Lauderdale County and to resolve the competing claim of Bradley Outdoor, Inc., to a part of that tract. The trial court entered a summary judgment for Colonial Bank. We affirm.

I. Facts and Procedural History

From 1950 to 1984, Ellen Johnson and her husband Beman Johnson were in uninterrupted possession of the tract of land that is the subject of the dispute ("the tract"). The tract includes a 175-foot-wide rectangular strip ("the strip") that runs along the tract's eastern boundary and is subject to a…