Hayes v. Cotter

This is a land line dispute between coterminous land owners. The disputed segment was approximately sixty by nine hundred feet. The defendants, Ross Cotter and Cotter Enterprises, Inc., owned record title to the strip. The plaintiffs, Adolph Hayes and the Mt. Zion Baptist Church of Enterprise, Inc., claimed title by adverse possession. The trial court, sitting without a jury, found in favor of the defendants and the plaintiffs appealed.

The descriptions contained in the parties' deeds provided that their common boundary was the line separating the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of…