Johnson v. Coshatt

The plaintiff appeals from a judgment entered in a boundary line dispute between coterminous landowners. We affirm.

Lawrence Dean Johnson sued Emmett M. Coshatt and Carol J. Coshatt, alleging ownership, by adverse possession, of a strip of land approximately five feet in width that adjoins and runs along the northeastern boundary of Johnson's property ("the disputed strip"). The disputed strip is an untravelled part of an easement 25 feet in width that was purchased by the Coshatts to provide a means of ingress to and egress from their landlocked property. The disputed strip gradually slopes…