Court Opinion

ID: 9677965
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 06:07:12.417144+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:00.665708
License: Public Domain

ROBERT L. Brown Justice, concurring. I concur and stice, fundamental defect in this litigation. How can you bring a quiet-title action based on adverse possession without making the record owner of .the land in question a party defendant? The answer is obvious. You cannot. Here, the two parties to this lawsuit laid claim to the strip of land as adverse possessors but failed to sue the person against whom they supposedly adversely possessed. It is difficult to see how tide to land can be adjudicated under these circumstances. What we have here is two claimants asserting an interest in land without the landowner knowing about it. I agree to reverse and dismiss without prejudice.