McLear-Gary v. Scott

*148Deborah McLear-Gary appeals from a judgment declaring her prescriptive and implied easement extinguished by adverse possession. She contends the trial court erred in finding that defendants Emrys Scott, Freyja Scott and Sophia Scott (the Scotts) established an essential element of adverse possession-the "timely" payment of taxes during the five-year statutory period. (See *447Code Civ. Proc., § 325, subd. (b).)1 We agree with McLear-Gary that the Scotts' lump sum payment of several years' worth of delinquent property taxes did not constitute "timely" payment of taxes for *149purposes of section 325,…