Chandler v. Jackson

OPINION

BROOKS, Judge.

The plaintiffs-appellants Lula M. Scher and Martha Jane Chandler, mother and daughter, filed suit to quiet title to a half-mile long, narrow strip of property located along the western edge of property to which their family, the A.J. Squires, had held title for many years. They claim that they have acquired the strip of property by adverse possession. Their claim to adverse possession rests on their contention that their family has considered a fence along the western side of their property to be their boundary and have used all the land up to the fence as their own since…