Manderscheid v. Dutton

Defendant appeals a judgment quieting title in a parcel of land that the trial court concluded plaintiffs had acquired by adverse possession. Defendant argues that plaintiffs failed to establish the elements of adverse possession as provided in ORS 105.620, in particular, that they either continuously possessed the disputed parcel for 10 years or that they reasonably believed the property was theirs. On de novo review, ORS 19.415(3) (2001); Gibbons v. Lettow, 180 Or App 37, 42, 42 P3d 925 (2002), we affirm.

In 1977, defendant and her former husband purchased a 40-acre parcel of land in Mount…