Hightower v. Pendergrass

OPINION

ALLISON B. HUMPHREYS, Special Justice.

This is an adverse possession case in which the question is, whether or not the permissive use of the disputed premises by the legal title holder, plaintiffs-appellants, amounts to such a re-entry as to oust the adverse holder and make unavailable the benefit of the seven year statute of limita*934tions provided by T.C.A. § 28-2-1031. The Court of Appeals and the chancery court have concurred in the facts of the case, finding that defendants-appellees had had adverse possession of the premises for seven years and more when plaintiffs-appellants sued;…