Dunegan v. Griffith

OPINION

in which HERSCHEL P. FRANKS, P.J., and CHARLES D. SUSANO, JR., J., joined.

The plaintiff brought this quiet title action asking the trial court to declare her the owner of a parcel of disputed property. Both parties proffered a chain of title ostensibly demonstrating ownership of the unimproved, wooded parcel, and both had been paying property taxes to Bledsoe County on the disputed property. After hearing the plaintiffs proof at a bench trial, the trial court held that the plaintiffs action was actually one for ejectment, which the trial court found “was not plead and which the proof…