Cossey v. House

By this suit the appellants, Coy Cossey and his wife, seek to recover a strip of land which they claim by adverse possession. The appellee Clem House is the record owner of the property. The chancellor found that the plaintiffs’ control of the disputed strip has not been of sufficient nature or of sufficient duration to invest them with title by adverse possession. The court accordingly dismissed the appellants’ complaint.

The strip in controversy may be described as the north two and a half chains of a forty-acre tract owned by House. In 1924 House bought this tract; he has lived on it ever…