Kennedy v. Rinehart

This is a suit to quiet title to real property located in Union County. The plaintiffs claim to have acquired title to one-half of the property by conveyance and to the other half by adverse possession. The defendants, record owners of an undivided half-interest in the property, claim the plaintiffs have failed to establish title by adverse possession in defendants’ one-half interest. The trial court found for the plaintiffs, and defendants appeal.

Prior to 1927, the property was owned by H. J. Rinehart and Nellie Crum as tenants in common. Rinehart died, and in 1945 Nellie Crum conveyed…