Atkinson v. Anderson

HEFLIN, Chief Justice.

This appeal involves a boundary line dispute between adjoining and coterminous land owners. The plaintiffs-appellees, Clarence and Margie Anderson, filed a complaint asking the circuit court to decree that they were the legal title holders to certain described land. The defendants- appellants, Lambert and Larcille Atkinson, answered the complaint in part by asserting a claim to 5.1 acres of land described in the complaint by prescription or alternatively by adverse possession. Prior to trial, a court ordered survey was made. Testimony was taken ore tenus before the trial…