Don’t piss off grumpy old men. They will find six ways from Sunday to make your life miserable.
Obviously 2 inches is a lot to this Dickensonian old codger. Give it back to him or else be covered with perpetuall geriatric treacle.
I do not like the way the British use the word cowboy.
Nice to read an 87 year old man is remaining active...
2” today, and sometime in the future they will break that wall down and put up a new one, 2 more inches into the property line.
And if they are allowed to do it, the law will recognize that no one complained, so it is now theirs.
I have seen the exact same situation played out in Texas and in Bosnia. A group will mistakenly put up the line an inch or two over the line, then claim it was theirs since the owner did not object. After a while that can add up to many square feet of land changing hands, especially if the groups stay around the property for a long time.
One of the reasons why the Bible inveighs against moving the old landmarks.
OMG just imagine an old fart with a newly found survey stake, a measuring tape and a rudimentary knowledge of surveying.
Sometimes, we retirees have way too much time on our hands.
A lot of Deja Vu in your posted thread.
If it’s true, he’s 100% correct to complain. It’s a property rights issue, one of our most basic God-given rights. The man knows the okd addage, give someone an inch and they’ll take a mile.
https://iment.com/maida/family/father/jackbell/Jack-Bell-Prospector-and-Naturalist-38.htm#fraction
Fraction Jack, Who Profits by the Mistakes of Others
Nevada State Journal, November 4, 1923
Old-Timers Watch Him
When Fraction Jack appears in a new camp, you will see every old-timer measuring off his ground and getting his stakes on the boundaries. He will also discover that the prospector is running his ground just a few feet shy of the allotment permitted by law, then he knows that he is safe from the wonderful - yes, unusual, insight that Stewart has for running boundaries. Now he does all this from a location monument.
Say a man claims 750 feet north and south from this monument and, of course, 300 feet on each side of the vein, or whatever it may be in our terms of description of ground. Stewart runs off that end line with his eyes, also the side lines - makes a mental calculation and, in every case, it will be found that he is right off the other man’s ground and on a small vacant piece of estate, that separates this location from the one that has been claimed by the man who located and claimed on the extension.
I am with the old guy on this. Betting the neighbors have never even acknowledged the infringement.
“’The police took away his drill.”
That's the saddest part of the story. While growing up, my parents had a feud with a neighbor over a parking space. In that neighborhood there were no garages so we all parked on the street. This guy claimed two spots in front of his house and only used one. Anytime a guest of ours would slide into the unused spot, he'd barrel out of the house screaming obscenities and threatening to call the police.
As he was retired, he would mostly sit on his back deck all day and glower at us if we were out in the yard. My mother told me to never go out there if he was sitting there because she was afraid he'd take a potshot at me or something. Which thus made it uncomfortable for me to be in the yard at any time as you never knew when he'd come out. Years after I moved out, I would still park way down the block when I visited so as not to encroach on the old man's parking space!
Many jusrisdictions have “setback rules” to avoid this issue. You can build a fence, but it has to be 12” on your side of the property line. You don’t lose ownership of the 12”, but you can’t absorb the neighbor’s property, either.
IS it or isn’t it on his property.
Inch/Mile comes to mind.
You can’t put your fence on your neighbors property.
If the old codger is correct, MOVE THE FENCE!
He couldn’t damage the neighbors fence if it is on his property, it’s HIS fence.
But whose property is the fence really on?
Did he drill holes, or poke holes?
What do drilled holes accomplish?
So make it right you friggen idiot. Dont bitch and moan about the neighbor you did wrong bitching and moaning about YOU!
His distraught wife said she guessed they'd have to move again. Apparently, he did it everywhere they moved.
-PJ