[where's_the_Outrage?]

This is insane IMHO, how does this become a court case? As I understand it the hunters crossed over using a ladder and the owner is sueing for violating airspace at Waypoint 2.

And if there's an issue with waypoint 6, was there a boundary marker? If not TFB for the owner.

[D Rider]

Might be insane. But if a thief gets injured tripping on a kids toy while robbing your house, they sue you for all your worth. So why not? Courts are always doing this kind of crazy stuff. And while we’re at it, someone needs to come up with the next set of criminal indictments for Trump. With all those golf courses, I just bet he is polluting ground water with fertilizer, or wasting water, or something...Cheers

[DesertRhino]

22,000 acres, and blocks access to public land, using it as his exclusive national forest. Welfare ranchers at their finest.

[SauronOfMordor]

Eshelman, a wealthy North Carolina resident, has claimed that if corner crossing were permitted, the resulting public access to public land would devalue his 22,045-acre ranch by some 25% to 30%.

In other words, he wants to effectively seize public land for his private use by denying access to the public.

[MayflowerMadam]

The guy sounds like a real ahole. He must be a joy to live with.

[Pilsner]

Texas does not have the township system, where the land was surveyed into square mile/640 acres tracts, so I did not study it much in law school. But my professor came from a state that used the system, and he said that the law was that a pedestrian, man on horseback, or a wagon, could cross at a “four corners” even though there was at least a nominal trespass (the pedestrian or horse might not actually step on the other two tracts).

How does this SOB cross at the “four corners” without trespassing on BLM land? I guess he claims BLM land is public so he can cross the four corners, but BLM can’t cross the four corners.

[StAntKnee]

I suppose Waypoint 6 is a trespass, strictly speaking. Even if so, it has absolutely nothing to to with the corner-crossing issue.

Seems to me that the offer to withdraw the lawsuit is telling. The landowner must be losing. But, if he gets the ruling he wants, he can salvage a win.

This is an insanity. A person can feasibly step from inside the corner of one segment of public land to another without ever touching private land. Airspace? Gimme a break. Prove the harm.

Just saying it’s a harm that devalues property is nonsense.

If a landowner forbids access, he is claiming sole ownership of public land. The judge should rule he must either pay taxes on the land or drop his nonsense suit.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

****The ranch owner suing hunters for trespassing through his airspace to access public land****

Some large ranch land owners have been doing this for years. By blocking off land access it is as if they just enlarged their ranches by tens of thousands of acres.

One Wyoming rancher became so obnoxious that the local judge declared people fishing could boat on a river as long as they did not touch the bottom. The rancher owned the land, but not the water way passing over.

We had several great swimming holes near here who closed access by local land owners just to keep people out. One even closed a county road to join his property on both sides of the road.