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· 12/30/1983

Reed v. Wolyniec

Citations

  • 471 A.2d 80
  • 323 Pa. Super. 550
  • 1983 Pa. Super. LEXIS 4621

How courts have described this case

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  • determining that maintaining the lawn, planting flowers and shrubs, erecting a bird house, and using the land for recreational purposes for more than twenty-one years was sufficient to establish adverse possession claim
  • single twenty-four hour attempt by record owner to interrupt claimant’s possession did not destroy continuity of adverse possession
  • in explaining continuity element of doctrine of adverse possession, our Supreme Court has noted that “[possession of land is dominion over the land; it is not equivalent to occupancy”
  • attempt to interrupt adverse possession is only valid where it results in actual interruption
  • possession must be demonstrated to the general exclusion of others

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Judges: Wieand, Cirillo, Johnson

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