Dillard v. Pickler

John Mauzy Pittman, Judge.

This is an adverse-possession case. Appellant Daniel Dillard appeals the Lafayette County Chancery Court’s order granting the appellees’ counterclaim requesting that the court quiet title in them to a forty-acre parcel of unenclosed timberland in Lafayette County. We affirm.

To understand the issue that appellant presents, we must first review the manner in which the parties acquired their respective interests in the forty acres of timberland at issue. The history of the parties’ respective interests in the land dates back to October 1913 when the Lafayette County…