Bearden v. Ellison

How courts have described this case

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• the focus of the inquiry must be on the acts of the claimant manifesting a claim of right sufficient to constitute adverse possession
• “The maintenance of a house, the cultivation of land and gardens, the pasturing of animals, and the mowing of fields are normal acts of use and serve as sufficient possessory acts to meet the requirements of adverse possession under the facts at issue in this case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).