2014 Ark. App. 332 - Lafferty v. Everett’s Empirical Analysis

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10 state decisions

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1. “It is ordinarily sufficient proof of adverse possession that the claimant’s acts of ownership are of such a nature as one would exercise over his own property and would not exercise over the land of another. A party seeking to acquire title to woodland under claim of adverse possession must show.“actual use of the land of such unequivocal character as to reasonably indicate to the owner visiting the premises during the statutory period that such use and occupation indicate an appropriation of ownership in another.” Whether possession' is- adverse to the true owner is a question of fact.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Foster v. Wasson