Real Property: Adverse Possession – Actual Possession – Fence Repair

Where landowners, who sought title by adverse possession, showed that they used the land for pasturing cattle, performed some fence maintenance and allowed others to hunt, the evidence standing alone was insufficient to establish adverse possession for the tracts, so the appellants’ first point is partially granted as to disputed tracts A and E.

Judgment is affirmed in part; reversed in part; remanded.

Dumproff v. Driskill (MLW No. 63488/Case No. SD31101 – 15 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Lynch, J.) Appealed from circuit court, Hickory County, Sims, J. (Randy J. Reichard, Springfield, for appellant) (J.D. Baker, Osceola, for respondent).

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