Harris v. Lynch

CRANE, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiff appeals from that portion of the trial court’s judgment denying her adverse possession claim to a strip of land lying between her southern property line as shown on her deeds and a fence line further south which runs across defendants’ lots. The trial court’s judgment was supported by substantial evidence and did not misdeclare or misapply the law. We affirm.

At the time this action was filed in 1989, plaintiff owned two adjoining tracts of land, a 28 acre tract and an 80 acre tract, in Franklin County, Missouri. The 80 acre tract is west of the 28 acre tract.…