Taffinder v. Thomas

How courts have described this case

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• finding use of property over boundary line for statutory period sufficient for adverse possession
• finding use of property over boundary line for statutory period sufficient for adverse possession
• determining first whether the claimants satisfied the requisite ten-year statutory period, and, finding that they had, addressed the elements of adverse possession
• equating the “true owner” with the record owner and stating the plaintiffs need “show occupation hostile to the title of the record owner”
• in order to prevail on a claim of adverse possession, a claimant must establish his or her own title and may not rely upon a defect in the title of another
• The defendant cannot \claim title based on speculation as to the intent of a grantor in their chain of title.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).