Collier v. Gilmore

Hostility. It's a term of art under Arkansas's adverse-possession law and is front and center in this appeal, which primarily asks: Can Garland Gilmore and Lesha Prater prevail on their adverse-possession claim against Sean and Kim Collier if Garland Gilmore believed he owned the disputed tract of land for some forty years, has possessed and farmed the disputed area for the same length of time, but was initially mistaken on where the relevant deed placed the true boundary line? This mistaken-boundary-line case "brings us to the most difficult, thoroughly maddening, question in all adverse…