Acord v. Pettit

¶1 — The trial judge here awarded title to a strip of land to the plaintiffs after concluding that they and their predecessors had adversely possessed the property. The appellants challenge the factual and legal basis for the court’s ruling on a number of grounds. We conclude that the *99judge properly admitted testimony from a previous trial of a witness who had died. We conclude that the court properly admitted the opinion of the respondents’ expert on logging operations on the disputed property. And we ultimately conclude that the court’s findings support the necessary elements of adverse…