Mount v. Curran

OPINION

RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a grant of partial summary judgment on an adverse possession claim. We reverse.

An action to quiet title to a tract of land in Fairbanks was brought by Mary Jane Curran, Thomas Curran, and the Parrish Co., their successor in interest. Curran alleged that she was the record title holder and owner in fee simple of Lots 6, 7A, and 7B, Block 95, of the Fairbanks townsite, as laid out in the survey known as the Robe Map of 1909. 1

James and Helen Mount, owners of Lot 8 (an adjacent lot), answered that portions of these lots (6, 7A, and 7B) were…