Supreme Court of Texas

In circumstances where neighboring relatives shared the use of a driveway for many years, thinking it belonged to one of them when in fact it belonged to the other, a court of appeals judgment holding that the use of the strip and everyone's mistaken belief that she owned it were legally sufficient evidence of adverse possession is reversed where the use at issue was not inconsistent with or hostile to the neighbors' ownership.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/01/2006
• Published 12/01/2006

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David W. Holman, The Holman Law Firm, P.C., Robert Alan York, Godwin Pappas Langley Ronquillo LLP, Larry E. Meyer, McCormick Hancock & Newton, Houston, for petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• William David George, Connelly, Baker, Maston, Wotring, Jackson LLP, Anne Gibson Edwards, Edwards & George LLP, Sandra Thourot Krider, Edwards Burns & Krider LLP, Claire Swift Kugler, Edwards Burns & Braziel LLP, Houston, TX, for respondents.