Nickell v. SOUTHVIEW HOMEOWNERS ASS'N

¶1 Robert and Karen Nickell appeal the superior court’s grant of summary judgment to the South-view Homeowners Association and its ruling that the Nickells’ silence induced reliance by others and estopped the Nickells’ adverse possession of an 18-foot-wide strip of land between their property and Southview’s property. The Nickells argue that (1) by June 1995, they had acquired full title to the disputed strip by adverse possession; (2) the prescriptive easement “vacant lands doctrine” does not apply because their use of the disputed strip was permanent, not sporadic, and occurred on land…