Section 5 Exclusive

• Library: Real Estate Fundamentals 2011

The fourth element of adverse possession is that the possession be exclusive. The exclusivity of possession only requires that the claimant occupy the land for the claimant and not for another. Walker v. Walker, 509 S.W.2d 102, 106 (Mo. 1974); Gates v. Roberts, 350 S.W.2d 729, 732 (Mo. 1961). As stated in Teson v. Vasquez, 561 S.W.2d 119, 127 (Mo. App. E.D. 1977): “Generally, one may not be vicariously vested with title by adverse possession as a result of possession by another, though where there is the...