UNION CEMETERY OF CRAWFORDSVILLE v. Coyer

Defendants Donald and Charlotte Schilling appeal from a judgment declaring that plaintiff is the owner in fee simple of a 40-foot strip of land including a gravel road (parcel 1 or the subject property) based, in part, on a conveyance and, in addition, on adverse possession. Our review is de novo, Nguyen v. Conner, 186 Or App 627, 64 P3d 118 (2003), Lesher v. Strid, 165 Or App 34, 42, 996 P2d 988 (2000), and we affirm.

Plaintiff operates a 3.69-acre cemetery that is surrounded by defendant’s property, tax lot 2002, which consists of 81 acres of grazing land. The subject property connects…