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Our firm has an extensive residential

Our firm has an extensive residential and commercial real estate practice wherein we provide a complete range of services from contracts to closings and title abstracts to title insurance.

Our real estate clients include realtors, brokers, developers, contractors, private investors, and numerous homeowners.

Title Insurance Services As an instrumental component of our real estate practice, Whether you are purchasing a hotel, developing a subdivision or just purchasing an investment cabin or home, we are skilled at walking you through the transaction.

We’ve been doing this for over 25 years so we bring that experience to your side of the table. This is not an area that you want to “go it alone.”

Is this a land grab case?

So the case looks like it was perhaps a land grab by Dye. 

The Court found it interesting that “Dock W. Smith had previously completed a survey on Dye’s property in December 2009.

Upon review of the survey, Dye made no assertion as to any alleged property to be in dispute and accepted the facts as to the size, location, and acreage of her property.”

Dye asserted that she owned the property as a result of a doctrine called adverse possession.

However she put on essentially no proof that she had actually exercised control of the property for over 7 years.

When the case went to trial, the Defendants did not put on any proof.
Instead when Dye rested her case, the Defendants made a motion asking the court to find that Dye was completely barred from making the claim because she failed to pay taxes on the property for over 22 years.

The statute relied upon by the Defendants is TCA 28-2-109 entitled, Presumption of Ownership from payment of Taxes, which provides that.

Any person holding any real estate or land of any kind.

Or any legal or equitable interest therein, who has paid, or who and those through whom such person claims have paid, the state and county taxes on the same for more than twenty (20) years continuously prior to the date.
C. Dan Scott
C. Dan Scott began practicing law in April of 1983 after graduating from the University of Tennessee summa cum laude. 

He graduated No. 1 in his law school class from the George C. Taylor School of Law in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Mr. Scott is a member of the American Bar Association, National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys, Tennessee Bar Association, American and Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association, as well as the Sevier County Bar Association.

For over 35 years Mr. Scott has helped individuals and businesses solve conflict by negotiation and by litigation through the court system.

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