H&F is the owner of a piece of land completely cut off from the mainland by property owned by the Panama City-Bay County Airport & Industrial District. The land lost its access to the mainland as a result of a 1940 land transaction in which the original owner conveyed 390 acres to the District but retained a portion on a peninsula. Fifty-six years later, H&F sued for a right of way to the mainland. The trial court dismissed the suit based on a 1963 Florida statute that extinguishes "stale" claims against land. The First District affirmed but certified the case to the Supreme Court.