Clark v. Hargrave

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• holding an action primarily involving adverse possession can properly be characterized as an action at law
• finding that claimant established open and notorious possession by posting no trespassing and no hunting signs and controlled access to the property by locked gate
• holding even though Clark held superior record title over adverse possessor to the land in question, that fact alone could not divest one who properly acquired title to the land by adverse possession
• affirming the master’s holding that the lot in question had been adversely possessed based, in part, on the testimony of the adverse possessor
• “It is axiomatic that a party claiming title by adverse possession must show the extent of his possession.”
• \It is axiomatic that a party claiming title by adverse possession must show the extent of his possession. This requirement is not negated by the mere fact the adverse claimant enters under color of title.\ (citation omitted)

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