Lyman v. Ferrari

The appellants, Howard and Patricia Lyman, brought an action in the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton County against the appellees, Fausto and Maddelena Ferrari, 1 in which they sought, inter alia, to quiet title to a strip of land running parallel to residential property which they owned in suburban Cincinnati. The action came on for trial, a jury having been waived, on June 21, 1978, during which the parties by agreement litigated only the issue of adverse possession. Following the trial, the judge presiding found that the appellants had failed to meet their burden of proof on that issue,…