Lusk v. Callaham

Goolsby, Judge:

The issue in this property action is whether the respondents Ivory Lusk and others 1 have established title by adverse possession to a 20.61 acre tract in Pickens County, South Carolina, to which the appellant John W. Callaham has record title. The referee found Lusk satisfied all the elements necessary to establish title by adverse possession. We reverse.

From at least 1932, Lusk’s predecessor in interest, his stepfather Claude Ellenburg, claimed ownership to approximately 100 acres of land of which the 20.61 acres in dispute were a part. Ellenburg farmed, tended cattle upon,…