Moore v. Stills

Opinion of the Court by

Justice ABRAMSON.

In November 2002, the second generation descendants of I.E. Winstead — Cleveland Winstead, James Dement, Curtis Dement, Pat Vandiver, Emma Lou Yates, Margaret Sue Jones, George Flener, Jerry Flener, and Shirley Stills, together with Shirley’s husband Roy E. Stills (“Petitioners”) — petitioned the Hopkins Circuit Court to quiet their title to an area of wild, formerly strip-mined land adjacent to and east of the 289-acre farm they had acquired through their parents from their grandfather. Petitioners based their claim on adverse possession. A Hopkins…