Opinion ID: 1924748
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Heading: Court's Fact Finding

Text: The chancellor found that Rice failed to meet the requirements of Miss. Code Ann. § 15-1-13 (1972) and this state's case law to prove adverse possession. The chancellor found the lease description of the land leased by Joe Rice, Sr. included the disputed property. Joe Rice, Sr. leased this land from 1972 through January 1982. During this time the chancellor found that there were no land disputes between Rice and his father, as lessee. He concluded that whatever the use of the land in question was, it was with the permission of the landowners because they were leasing the land. Thus, there could be no adverse or hostile claim made by Rice. The chancellor found that even if the land had not been leased to Rice's father, the acts of Rice, i.e. putting equipment on the land, placing a house on the land for a short time, and constructing a workshed on the property, were not sufficient to show that Rice exercised the same character of control which he used toward property that was actually his.