Court Opinion

ID: 7599794
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-29 06:59:05.924716+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:24:46.968093
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The defendant appeals from a judgment entered in a case involving a boundary line dispute between coterminous landowners.
Terry Lee Pierce, as executrix of the estate of Lee W. Pierce, deceased, and Thelma D. Pierce sued Percy F. Martin, claiming ownership of a 5.4-foot strip of land by adverse possession. Martin, holder of record title, counterclaimed, seeking to quiet title to the property. After an ore tenus hearing, the trial court entered a judgment in favor of the plaintiffs, stating, in part:
 "The court, having heard the evidence, is satisfied that the plaintiffs have met their burden of proof in that the disputed land has been adversely possessed for at least a ten-year period and that said possession was open notorious, continuous, exclusive, and hostile, pursuant to Ala. Code 1975, § 6-5-200, and hereby grants the request prayed for in the plaintiffs' complaint and denies the defendant's counterclaim. . . ."
Martin appeals.
The judgment is affirmed on the authority of Strickland v.Markos, 566 So.2d 229 (Ala. 1990), wherein this Court wrote:
 "When evidence is presented ore tenus, the trial court's findings will not be disturbed on appeal unless they are unsupported by credible evidence or are manifestly unjust. . . . Moreover, [the] presumption of correctness [afforded judgments in ore tenus nonjury cases] is even stronger in adverse possession cases, because in such cases the evidence is generally difficult to weigh from the appellate court's vantage point."
566 So.2d at 231-32 (citations omitted).
AFFIRMED.
HORNSBY, C.J., and ALMON, ADAMS and INGRAM, JJ., concur. *Page 586