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Property Law Keyed to Kurtz
Jarvis v. Gillespie
Citation:
155 Vt. 633, 587 A.2d 981Facts
The town of Waterville acquired title to a 1.2 acre parcel of land in 1935. In 1947, the plaintiff purchased over 200 acres of land which surrounded the disputed parcel on three sides. In 1986, the town conveyed the disputed parcel to the defendant. In 1988, the plaintiff filed an action to establish ownership of the disputed parcel. The plaintiff argued that he had acquired the parcel by adverse possession before the town conveyed it to the defendant. At various times between 1947 ad 1986, the plaintiff had used the land for a variety of purposes such as grazing cattle and horses, parking vehicles, and storing slab wood from a sawmill, which was located on adjacent property. There were also times when the plaintiff maintained a fence on some of the parcel’s boundaries and posted “No Trespassing” signs.
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