Posted on 12/05/2007 7:40:01 PM PST by george76
A judge who granted a couple part of their neighbors' property in an adverse-possession lawsuit has denied their request to add on a strip of land 9 inches wide.
Richard McLean and Edith Stevens, of Boulder, had asked for the full width of a disputed path on land purchased by their neighbors Don and Susie Kirlin.
In October, McLean and Stevens were awarded about a third of the Kirlins' lot, or more than 1,400 square feet...
A judge said last week he could only consider evidence presented at trial ...
(Excerpt) Read more at thedenverchannel.com ...
Oh, they’re talking about property. Whew...
Maybe they could have some younger relatives play with their yo yo’s over the line. Things could get super cereal then.
They oughta get on my spam e-mail lists! 9 inches? That’s nothing, a piece of cake!
Give them a mile and they’ll still want another inch...
Judge Denies Couple’s Request For 9 More Inches
That headline is just plain wrong.
It’s a good thing I’m not the agrieved party in this case, or these clowns would get 6 feet!
Straight down!
I’d tell ‘em;
“Your heirs may get to enjoy all of my property, but you’re not going to get to enjoy ANY of it!”
I read about this case. These people went back fro more land? Amazing. They are thieves.
These things are always weird. My brother bought my grandparents house, where they had lived since 1938. There was a small flower garden on the side of the house and then the neighbor’s driveway. My grandmother had grown rosebushes and other flowering plants there since I could remember.
One day, after some new neighbors moved in a couple of years ago, the new guy knocks on my brother’s door and says “I was looking at the property lines, and your flower garden is on our property. We are going to pave it over.” My brother said my grandparents had used it since the thirties, but the guy said “Sorry. We own it and we will take it to court if we have to.” Nice introduction to the new neighbors.
My brother got a layout of the plot, and...oopsie! It was set up in such an odd way that the flower garden was indeed on their property, but...THEIR ENTIRE DRIVEWAY WAS ON MY BROTHER’S PROPERTY!
LOL...how wonderful is THAT? Being the nice guy my brother is, he pointed that out, and said “You can keep the driveway if we can keep the rose garden...”
Nothing more was ever spoken about it!
I wonder what constitutes "using" in Colorado. Some skier might want to claim Vail.
This is an extremely notorious case about a husband wife team of crooked democrat party lawyer/politicians simply and overtly stealing some desirable land.
They used their influence with democrat jusges top make the outrageous theft “legal.”
Adverse possession never made much sense to me. Because I’m nice enough to let you cut through my yard should not make it your yard.
In Colorado, adverse-possession law allows a person to gain property after using it unchallenged for 18 years.
GAVE them 1/3 of their neighbors property?!?!?!?! Like they didn't have any other way to get into their own back yard, like a door or something? How greedy can you get?
What a title!!!! lol.
The headline caught me off gaurd too lolol.
Nice new neighbor.
/s
Good that your brother stood up to the fool.
My wife has been requesting this for years...
Love it.
My sister had a similar issue with a neighbor about a fence that was put up in the wrong spot. When she got the house after my mom died, she moved the fence and the neighbor was furious. (the fences were back to back, way back where nobody ever went). He threatened her until she told him that if he did anything, she would make him do something about his garage roof which over hung her property by six inches.
Never heard another word from him since then.
The retired Judge who got the 1400 feet served with the ruling Judge in a same District Court.
The appearance of corruption ( if not down right corruption ) is huge.
So the thieves didn’t steal enough and went back for more. At least there’s a sane judge.
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