Alaska National Bank v. Linck

How courts have described this case

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• noting claimants had “cleared part of the land, built and maintained barricades, and kept the property clean”
• affirming same where claimant cleared land, maintained barricades, and kept property clean
• One test for determining continuity of possession is to ask whether the land was used as an average owner would use it.
• appeal technically premature, but scope of issues raised clear to parties; no injustice will result from treating appeal as properly taken from final judgment
• adverse possessors had “cleared part of the land, built and maintained barricades, and kept the property clean”
• notoriety element was satisfied because if the true owners had visited the property during the adverse possession period, they would have noticed evidence of an adverse claim, including a barricade erected by the adverse user to keep people from crossing the property

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).