Park West Village, Inc. v. Avise

HOWE, Justice:

Defendants, Gary and Susan Avise, appeal from a judgment quieting title to a tract of land on which they reside in plaintiffs and in third-party defendant Park City. Defendants are lessees of the tract and have an option to purchase it from their lessor. They contend that their lessor had acquired title by adverse possession.

Plaintiffs and Park City are the owners (subject to the claims of defendants) of adjoining tracts of land located just north and west of the old Union Pacific Depot in Park City, Utah. Straddling the boundary between these two tracts and overlapping a part…