for the Court:
¶ 1. This appeal stems from the Madison County Chancery Court’s award of property to Walter Hudson by adverse possession, as well as the award of $821 in damages for the destruction of plants on the property. Aggrieved by the chancellor’s award Of property and damages, Rebecca Conliff appeals.
FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
¶ 2. Therman Howard owned an eighty-acre tract of land located in Madison
¶ 3. An old fence line between the parties’ property was thought by Hudson to be the property boundary. Believing the property all the way to the old fence to be his, Hudson planted shrubs, trees, flowers, and installed a water line on the property east of the old fence. The parties lived this way until Conliff had her property surveyed on August 29, 1996. The survey revealed that her actual boundary line was not the old fence line but was actually within eight feet of Hudson’s home. The actual boundary line now showed Conliff to be the owner of the property Hudson had previously developed east of the fence line. After a disagreement arose between Hudson and Conliff over ownership of the disputed piece of property lying between the old fence and survey line, Conliff prepared and Hudson executed a lease agreement for the disputed property spanning twenty-nine feet in width from the old fence line to what the survey indicated was the actual boundary of Conliffs property. Hudson testified that he only entered into the lease to keep the peace with Conliff. The first lease was executed on September 24, 1996, and was for a term of one year. In the lease, the property is described as:
Beginning at the first metal fence post past the southeast corner of the Tractor Barn go South 200 feet turn East to the surveyed line approx. 29 feet turn North 200 feet along surveyed line, turn West approx. 29 feet to the same metal fence post South of the Tractor Barn described as the beginning point.
¶ 4. A second lease was executed on November 5, 1997, with the same property description, but the lease was now for a term of sixty months. Approximately five years later and at the termination of this second lease, Conliff decided not to renew it. In 2003, Conliff sent Hudson a letter telling him to remove his belongings off the property because “he had trashed the property.” She also filed charges against Hudson in 2003 for violating the lease and malicious mischief. Then, in 2005, Conliff had a bulldozer tear down the existing old fence separating ■ the property and constructed a new barbed wire fence on the survey line which came within a few feet of Hudson’s back steps. She also destroyed the plants that Hudson had planted on the property prior to the 1996 survey.
¶ 5. On August 12, 2004, Hudson filed a complaint to confirm and quiet title to the twenty-nine feet of property he had previously occupied and was currently leasing from Conliff. Hudson then filed an amended complaint seeking to confirm and quiet title to the property, an adjudication that Hudson owned the disputed tract through adverse possession, and damages for Conliffs destruction of the plants on the disputed tract of land. Hudson also sought to have Conliff remove a video camera that was directed at his property.
¶ 6. The chancery court held that Hudson had sufficiently proven his ownership of the property through adverse possession, awarded him the disputed property plus damages in the amount of $821 for Conliffs destruction of the plants and shrubs on the property, and enjoined Con-liff from using the video camera to view Hudson’s property. The chancery court found that the lease’s description was invalid because it inadequately described the
¶ 7. Conliff now appeals raising four issues:
I. Whether the chancery court applied a clearly erroneous legal standard by ruling that Hudson’s adverse-possession claim was “reactivated.”
II. Whether the chancery court erred in its findings of fact that Hudson had satisfied the adverse-possession element of claim of ownership.
III. Whether the chancery court committed manifest error by holding the lease between the parties invalid for insufficiency of the legal description.
IV. Whether the chancery court committed manifest error by incorrectly describing the boundary line between the parties’ property.
Finding no error, we affirm.
DISCUSSION
¶ 8. When reviewing a chancellor’s decision, our standard of review is limited.
Nichols v. Funderburk,
I. Adverse Possession
¶ 9. Conliff first asserts that the chancellor erred in both allowing Hudson to “reactivate” his prior adverse possession and granting Hudson the property by adverse possession. She argues that even if Hudson satisfied all the elements of adverse possession prior to 1996, by voluntarily entering into the lease, Hudson abandoned his ownership of the property. Mississippi Code Annotated section 15 — 1— 13(1) (Rev.2003) governs adverse-possession claims and provides in part:
Ten (10) years’ actual adverse possession by any person claiming to be the owner for that time of any land, uninterruptedly continued for ten (10) years by occupancy, descent, conveyance, or otherwise, in whatever way such occupancy may have commenced or continued, shall vest in every actual occupant or possessor of such land a full, complete title ....
A six-element test is relied upon by the chancery court when assessing claims of adverse possession. The party claiming adverse possession must show, by clear and convincing evidence as to each element, that his possession was (1) under a claim of right or ownership; (2) actual or hostile; (3) open, notorious, and visible; (4) continuous and uninterrupted for a period of ten years; (5) exclusive; and (6) peaceful.
Rice v. Pritchard,
¶ 10. In
Gillespie,
¶ 11. The second point is that “[rjegardless of the time during which permissive use may have interrupted the continuity of the possession, it is alleged that adverse possession had prior to then already created title.
Once adverse possession creates an easement, it cannot be lost by the record title owner granting permission.” Gillespie,
¶ 12. We hold that once Hudson satisfied the elements of adverse possession, title to the disputed parcel vested in him. For Conliff to thereafter establish a superior claim to the disputed parcel, she would have to meet all six elements of adverse possession by clear and convincing proof. This she failed to do. There simply was no necessity to “reactivate” Hudson’s adverse-possession claim after the survey or the execution of the lease.
¶ 13. This issue is without merit.
II. Lease’s Property Description
¶ 14. Conliff also asserts that it was error for the chancellor to hold that the lease was invalid because the description was not sufficient. Our resolution of the prior issue renders this issue moot.
¶ 15. The final issue Conliff asserts is that the chancellor committed manifest error by incorrectly describing the parties’ new boundary line. An appellant is required “to provide authority in support of an assignment of error.”
Taylor v. Kennedy,
¶ 16. THE JUDGMENT OF THE CHANCERY COURT OF MADISON COUNTY IS AFFIRMED. ALL COSTS OF THIS APPEAL ARE ASSESSED TO THE APPELLANT.
Notes
. Mississippi Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 60(a) provides: Clerical mistakes in judgments, orders, or other parts of the record and errors therein arising from oversight or omission may be corrected by the court at any time on its own initiative or on the motion of any party and after such notice, if any, as the court orders up until the time the record is transmitted by the clerk of the trial court to the appellate court and the action remains pending therein. Thereafter, such mistakes may be so corrected only with leave of the appellate court.