DAVIS v. CLEMENT

No. 55239.

468 So.2d 58 (1985)

Boyd L. DAVIS and Ray Ellis Davis v. Diana H. CLEMENT, Ronald R. Lott, Emelda B. Lott, Artis Mark, Jr., Sharon N. Mark, Jane W. Melton, William E. Melton, Mary Gaston Melton Buchler, Julius W. Melton, Jr., Crown Zellerbach Corporation, C.O. Trest, Marion T. Hardwick, Elizabeth W. Trest and Suellen T. Verger.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

April 24, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Conrad Mord, Tylertown, for appellants.

John T. Armstrong, Jr., Edward E. Patten, Jr., Armstrong & Hoffman, Hazlehurst, Joseph M. Stinson, Tylertown, John Mark Weathers, James D. Johnson, Aultman, Tyner, McNeese, Weathers & Gunn, Hattiesburg, for appellees.

Before WALKER, P.J., and HAWKINS and ROBERTSON, JJ.


ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I.

In this action the owners of an 80 acre tract of land in Walthall County, Mississippi, claimed that they had adversely possessed some 70 additional and adjacent acres and sought to confirm in them title thereto. At the conclusion of the would be adverse possessers' proof, the chancery court sustained the record title holders' motion to dismiss, holding the adverse possessors' purported acts of possession sporadic and...

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