Managers and the Legal Environment 7th Edition by David Madsen, Constance Bagley

Exercise 8

In 1973, William Arnholt and his then wife, Marie Arnholt, purchased a parcel of land abutting a stream. They remained there until 1993, when they were divorced. Pursuant to their divorce decree, Marie continued to reside in the home until 1995, at which time William took possession of the home. Since the purchase of the land in 1973, William treated a barbed-wire fence on the other side of the stream as his property's boundary line. Over the years, he planted as many as 150 trees on the sides of the stream and buttressed the stream banks with bricks and tiles. He also began mowing the area on the opposite side of the stream and storing materials and automobiles not far from the stream. Carlisle is the owner of an adjoining parcel on which sits the disputed area. After disputes between Carlisle and Arnholt arose, Arnholt filed a complaint seeking title to the disputed property on the grounds of adverse possession. Did Arnholt meet all of the requirements of adverse possession? [Arnholt v. Carlisle, 2011 WL 2436590 (Ohio Ct. App. 2011).]