Adverse possession — Real property owned by a park district — Court of appeals’ judgment affirmed on the authority of Houck v. Bd. of Park Commrs. of the Huron Cty. Park Dist.

[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it may be cited as Law v. Lake Metroparks, Slip Opinion No. 2007-Ohio-6749.]

NOTICE This slip opinion is subject to formal revision before it is published in an advance sheet of the Ohio Official Reports. Readers are requested to promptly notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of Ohio, 65 South Front Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215, of any typographical or other formal errors in the opinion, in order that corrections may be made before the opinion is published.

SLIP OPINION NO. 2007-OHIO-6749 LAW ET AL., APPELLANTS, v. LAKE METROPARKS, APPELLEE. [Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it may be cited as Law v. Lake Metroparks, Slip Opinion No. 2007-Ohio-6749.] Adverse possession -- Real property owned by a park district -- Court of appeals' judgment affirmed on the authority of Houck v. Bd. of Park Commrs. of the Huron Cty. Park Dist.

(No. 2007-0298 -- Submitted November 28, 2007 -- Decided December 20, 2007.)

APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Lake County, No. 2006-L-072, 2006-Ohio-7010.

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The judgment of the court of appeals is affirmed on the authority of Houck v. Bd. of Park Commrs. of the Huron Cty. Park Dist., 116 Ohio St.3d 148, 2007-Ohio-5586.

MOYER, C.J., and LUNDBERG STRATTON, O'CONNOR, LANZINGER, and CUPP, JJ., concur.

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PFEIFER, J., dissents for the reasons stated in his dissenting opinion in Houck v. Bd. of Park Commrs. of the Huron Cty. Park Dist.

O'DONNELL, J., not participating.

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Redmond, Walker & Murray and Gerald R. Walker, for appellants.

Gibson, Brelo, Ziccarelli & Martello and Joseph Gibson, for appellee.

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