Ellis v. Jansing

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that Texas statutory law prohibits the adverse possession of a fee title subject to a 15 foot easement dedicated to the city of Waco
• holding that Article 5517 prohibited a party’s claim of 3 adverse possession to an alleyway
• noting that mistaken belief of landownership will not give rise to adverse possession claim unless possession is accompanied by intent to appropriate
• trespass to try title case involving claim of adverse possession of storm sewer easement owned by City of Waco
• trespass to try title case involving claim of adverse possession of storm sewer easement owned by City of Waco
• “This portion of the affidavit in which Mr. Copeland states he held open, notorious, exclusive, continuous and adverse possession to the property in question, represents legal conclusions and is ineffective to raise a fact issue in a summary judgment hearing.”

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