Lafferty v. Everett

RITA W. GRUBER, Judge.

| Fannie F. Lafferty and Linda S. Laf-ferty, husband and wife, appeal the circuit court’s order denying their claim of ownership by adverse possession to a thirty-acre tract of land. The Laffertys, who hold record title to 140 acres of land contiguous to thirty acres, sought to establish that a fence running through the woods on the disputed tract was their property’s boundary line. On December 11, 2006, after discovering that the fence had been removed — its barbed wire cut, rolled up, and lying on the ground — they filed a lawsuit to quiet title in their favor and…