Miller v. Leaird

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• holding-evidence of adverse possession included mortgage payments paid on the property, taxes paid on the property, and boundary lines marked on the disputed property
• noting that an adverse possession claim is an action at law
• holding evidence supported Special Referee’s finding of adverse possession when respondent paid the mortgages on the property, paid taxes on the property, and marked the boundary lines of the disputed property, and cut and sold timber on the tract in question for the statutory period
• holding evidence supported Special Referee’s finding of adverse possession when respondent paid the mortgages on the property, paid taxes on the property, and marked the boundary lines of the disputed property, and cut and sold timber on the tract in question for the statutory period
• “[O]nce the statutory period for adverse possession is activated the subsequent creation of a life estate will not suspend the running of such period.”
• in an action at law tried by a special referee, the referee’s findings must be accepted unless the evidence is reasonably susceptible of only the opposite conclusion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).