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970922 Hollander v. World Mission Church 02/27/1998 Since evidence sufficiently supported the required elements for a finding of adverse possession of a strip of land for the statutory period, the jud
State: Virginia
Court: Supreme Court
Docket No: 970922
Case Date: 02/27/1998
Plaintiff: 970922 Hollander
Defendant: World Mission Church 02/27/1998 Since evidence sufficiently supported the required elements for a f
Preview:PRESENT: Carrico, C.J., Compton, Lacy, Hassell, Koontz, and Kinser, JJ., and Whiting, Senior Justice

CAROLYN HOLLANDER
   OPINION BY
v.  Record No. 970922 SENIOR JUSTICE HENRY H. WHITING  
   February 27, 1998
WORLD MISSION CHURCH OF WASHINGTON, D.C.

FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF FAIRFAX COUNTY
Leslie M. Alden, Judge

This adverse possession case involves the effect of a mistake as to the location of an actual boundary line upon the intent to hold disputed land adversely.
The World Mission Church of Washington, D.C., (the church) filed a motion for judgment seeking to recover possession of a strip of its land in Fairfax County.  The church claimed that Carolyn Hollander, an adjoining property owner, "unlawfully with[held]" the land.  Hollander responded by claiming title by adverse possession.
At a trial before the court, the evidence indicated that the church had record title to the land in dispute.  The dispute arose because Hollander and her predecessors in title (the claimants) had used the disputed land mistakenly believing that their property ran to a line of trees at the edge of woods on the church's property.
After hearing both parties
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