CALHOUN v. WOODS

Record No. 921158.

431 S.E.2d 285 (1993)

Henry W. CALHOUN, et al. v. Theodore Kennedy WOODS, Jr., et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

June 11, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph E. Main, Jr., for appellants.

Edward R. Slaughter, Jr. (Slaughter & Redinger, on brief), for appellee Theodore Kennedy Woods, Jr.

No brief or argument for appellees Anne E. Woods, Martha Woods Churn, Margaret Woods Gillette, Anne Woods Guzzardi, Dorothy Woods McLeod, Grace Douglas Woods Sprunt, Montgomery Bird Woods, William Sharpless Derrick Woods, Jr., and Lucretia Woods Wyckoff.

Present: All the Justices.


COMPTON, Justice.

This is an appeal in a suit to quiet title to certain parcels of unimproved mountain land. The claimants seek to acquire title by adverse possession. The dispositive issue on appeal is whether the trial court correctly ruled that the claimants failed to establish their title by the requisite burden of proof.

In 1988, claimants Henry W. Calhoun and Katharine J. Calhoun, his wife, filed a bill of complaint against Theodore Kennedy Woods, Jr...

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