Southwest Village Water Co., Inc. v. Fleming

This is an appeal by Southwest Village Water Company from an order of the trial court quieting title in Walton Fleming, et al., to a parcel of land located in Madison County, Alabama. We affirm.

The appellees in this case are the owners of the fee simple interest in the property that is the subject of this suit. In 1960, the appellees and their predecessors in title granted a long term (55-year) lease of the property. When the lease was executed, no permanent improvements existed on the property. Paragraph 5 of the lease authorizes the construction of permanent improvements on the property and…