Jerry E. Blair and Betty L. Rawlins filed the instant lawsuit involving a land dispute against appellees Jerry L. Bishop, Mary E. Bishop, Julius E. Cruse, Terry A. Manthey, Lisa Hamilton Manthey, Janet B. Simpson, Leon Simpson, and owners of adjacent property with common land lot and boundary lines. Following a bench trial, the trial court entered judgment in favor of appellees. Rawlins1 appeals, pro se, challenging the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the trial court’s judgment. She also contends that the trial court’s written judgment did not comport with its oral pronouncement and that this alleged variance constituted reversible error.2 For the reasons that follow, we affirm. 1. Rawlins contends that the evidence was insufficient to sustain the trial court’s judgment. We disagree.On appeal from a bench trial, we do not retry the case. Rather, the appellate standard of review for nonjury trials of disputed material facts is the clearly erroneous test, also known as the “any evidence” rule. As such, the sole question for determination on appeal is whether there is any evidence to authorize the trial court’s judgment. It is our duty to construe the evidence to uphold the judgment rather than upsetting it. This is true regardless of whether evidence also existed that may have supported the appellant’s position. In the absence of legal error, an appellate court is without jurisdiction to interfere with a judgment supported by some evidence. Citations and punctuation omitted. Sledge v. Peach County , 276 Ga. App. 780, 781-782 624 SE2d 288 2005.
So viewed, the evidence establishes that Blair and Rawlins are a married couple claiming to have had title to the disputed property comprised of approximately nine acres located in Fayette County. They contend that the nine acre tract was a part of approximately 70 acres that had been purchased by Blair’s father, L. L. Blair, in 1944. The property was conveyed to Blair’s mother under a life estate with a remainder interest in Blair in accordance with his father’s last will and testament in 1972. Blair obtained title to the property by quitclaim deed from his mother in 1994, prior to the termination of the life estate. Blair claimed that he paid the property taxes but never visited the property. Thereafter, in 1999, Blair conveyed the property to his wife, Rawlins, who has never occupied the property.
