Patrick v. McSperitt

Sam Bird, Judge.

Appellant, the Patrick Family Trust, represented by Trustee Dorothy C. Patrick, filed suit in Madison County to quiet title by adverse' possession to a piece of property directly across the street from the family’s home. The evidence was clear and convincing that the Patrick family had used and possessed the land and a “shop” located on it for more than fifty years. Quiet title was denied appellant because in 1995 the legislature had revised the adverse possession statute and added a provision requiring that the person attempting to show adverse possession of land prove that…