O'KEEFE v. Aptos Land & Water Co.

WOOD (Fred B.), J.

This is an appeal in two quiet title actions involving three adjoining parcels of real property. Although the actions were not formally consolidated, they were tried together and resulted in a single set of findings of fact and conclusions of law and a single judgment in favor of the plaintiff. The defendants have appealed.

Plaintiff, administratrix of the estate of L. G. Monroe, deceased, tried the case upon the theory that she had acquired title by adverse possession; defendants, upon the theory that Monroe did not hold adversely, that he took possession under an oral…