Question

A doctor and a lawyer owned adjoining parcels of land. Ten years ago, the doctor installed a swimming pool on her land. The doctor obtained the lawyer's oral consent to run plumbing from the pool across part of the lawyer's land. Last year, the lawyer sold his land to a buyer. The buyer wants to plant a garden on the land under which the doctor's plumbing runs, and wants to eject the doctor and quiet title. The statute of limitations for ejectment is seven years. With respect to the land under which the plumbing was laid what, if anything, has the doctor acquired

Answer 1

Answer: The doctor has acquired neither title by adverse possession nor a prescriptive easement.

Step-by-step explanation:

It should be noted that in this scenario, the doctor has not acquired title by adverse possession nor the prescriptive easement in the land.

For the doctor to eb able to establish the title by adverse possession, it should be noted that the possession will have to be actual and exclusive, adverse, open and notorious, and continuous in the statutory period.

Therefore, following the information in the question, the doctor has acquired neither title by adverse possession nor a prescriptive easement.