Wallis’s Cayton Bay Holiday Camp Ltd v Shell-Mex and BP Ltd

Subject Matter

LIMITATION OF ACTION — Land, recovery of — Possessory title — Disputed land adjoining garage awaiting development — New road behind to be constructed — User of land for 10 years for farming purposes — Subsequent two-year user as frontage for holiday camp — Whether owners dispossessed — Whether “adverse possession” — Limitation Act 1939, ss 4 (3), 10 (1), 13, 16

[1975] QB 94; [1974] 3 WLR 387