GORMAN v. SHERMAN


299 A.D.2d 451 (2002)

749 N.Y.S.2d 893

JOHN P. GORMAN et al., Respondents, v. JEFFREY SHERMAN et al., Appellants.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

Decided November 18, 2002.


Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

It is well settled that a party who seeks to acquire title to real property by adverse possession must demonstrate, by clear and convincing evidence, that their possession of the property "was hostile, under a claim of right, actual, open, notorious, and exclusive, and it must have been continuous for the statutory period" (Barnett v Nelson, 248 A.D.2d 656<...

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