1148 Davol Street LLC v. Mechanic's Mill One LLC

At issue in this appeal is the ownership of a strip of land in Fall River. The defendant was the record owner of the disputed property, which the plaintiff claimed based on adverse possession. The parties agree that the nature and length of the plaintiff’s use of the land generally was sufficient to establish title by adverse possession. The only contested issue is one of law; whether the plaintiff may count the time during which title to the land was held by one of the defendant’s predecessors-in-title, the city of Fall River (city), toward the requisite twenty-year period of continuous…