Peters v. Juneau-Douglas Girl Scout Council

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• claimant “merely acting as any other hospitable landowner might” in allowing strangers to come on land to dig clams
• “[Possession need not be absolutely exclusive; it need only be a type of possession which would characterize an owner’s use.”
• possessor did not disrupt his exclusive possession by allowing visitors to dig for clams
• possessor did not disrupt his exclusive possession by allowing visitors to dig for clams
• with respect to the requirement of hostility, the possessor’s “beliefs as to the true legal ownership of the land, his good faith or bad faith in entering into possession ... are all irrelevant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).