Scott v. Slater

Plaintiffs brought this action to quiet title to a strip of land lying between a tract formerly owned by them and one owned by defendants. They claim ownership of the strip by adverse possession and by the establishment of a boundary by acquiescence. The trial court found the facts in plaintiffs’ favor on each of these issues, and defendants, by this appeal, challenge those findings.

The area in which these tracts are located was platted. A street eighty feet in width was shown between them on the plat. Before either plaintiffs or defendants acquired their tracts, this street was vacated. When…