MacDonough-Webster Lodge No. 26 v. Wells

¶ 1. This dispute arises out of competing claims to ownership of land at the boundaries of a parcel owned and occupied by plaintiff MacDonough-Webster Lodge No. 26, Free and Accepted Masons. The Masons appeal both the trial court’s grant of partial summary judgment on the issue of whether the lodge property qualifies for the charitable use exception to Vermont’s adverse possession statute and the trial court’s decisions on the merits finding that the Masons’ neighbors, the Wells and the Denisons, had acquired certain strips of land located at the boundary of the Masons’ property through…