Mount v. Curran

OPINION ON REHEARING

RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a grant of partial summary judgment regarding a claim of adverse possession.

An action of quiet title to a tract of land in Fairbanks was brought by Mary Jane Curran, Thomas E. Curran, Jr., and the Parrish Company, their successors in interest. Curran alleged that the Parrish Company was the record title holder and owner in fee simple of Lots 6, 7A, and 7B, Block 95, of the Fairbanks townsite, as laid out in the survey known as the Robe Map of 1909.1

James and Helen Mount, owners of Lot 8 (an adjacent lot), answered that…