MacIas v. Guymon Industrial Foundation

OPAL A, Justice:

The dispositive issue before us is whether in this case an adverse claimant’s possession may be tacked to that of his immediate predecessor in title and, when thus united, be deemed to extend for the requisite period of fifteen years. 12 O.S.1971 § 93(4).

The dispute stems from a mistaken location of a fence line separating two quarter sections of land. 1 The fence, which was believed to mark the correct boundary between the two tracts, was in fact 51 feet to the north of the section line. 2

In the suit below Alex and Rosa-mond Macias [claimants], owners of NW/4, sought to…