Emerson v. Maine Rural Missions Ass'n

COLLINS, Justice.

The defendant, Maine Rural Missions Association, Inc. (MRM), appeals a judgment granting title by adverse possession to disputed property to the plaintiffs, Stanley and Lois Emerson, after a nonjury trial in Superior Court (Penobscot County, Beau-lieu, J.). We affirm the judgment.

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In 1957 the Emersons purchased a house and garage, and the property on which they stood on Essex Street in Bangor, from Myrtle Elizabeth Carson. In 1961, they purchased an additional adjoining parcel from Ferdinand and Laura Glenk. In 1963, Reverend Arlington Booker, president of MRM, requested that…