Mudwilder v. Claxton

CAMMACK, Judge.

This action was instituted by the Clax-tons, the appellees, to quiet title to a small lenticular strip of land near Jeffersontown, 546 feet long and 25 feet wide at its axis. Their assertion of title by adverse possession to the disputed strip was upheld in the trial court. The record owners of the strip, the Mudwilders, are appealing on the ground that the proof offered by the Claxtons was not sufficient to establish the elements of adverse possession; in particular, those of continuity of possession and claim of right.

The Mudwilders acquired their property in 1943. Most of it…