Ajudge in Delaware has ordered a businessman hand over a $125,000 parcel of land to his neighbor after she kept her goats on the land for over 20 years and claimed squatter’s rights.
Burton Banks, an Atlanta-based financial advisor, inherited the uninhabited plot of land in Ocean View, Delaware, from his father Ralph.
In 2021 Banks and his husband David Barrett decided they wanted to sell the plot of land, which sits empty and undeveloped.
But he discovered that around two thirds of an acre was being used by his neighbor Melissa Schrock, who had erected a pen for her goats on the land.
‘It’s just always been my backyard since I was a little kid,’ Schrock said.
Banks took her to court to try and reclaim the land, but Schrock claimed squatter’s rights.
Explaining her counter-claim, Schrock said: ‘It’s just always been my backyard since i was a kid.’
Superior Court Judge Craig Karsnitz ruled in February in Schrock’s favor, noting that Banks lived primarily in Atlanta and ‘only occasionally’ came to the Delaware site.
what a load of crap, goat crap apparently. the rightful owner is the rightful owner. they should fight this very hard!
Was it Biden ???
People get hosed by this all the time. Know where your property lines are and protect them.
IIRC, rooted in the Common Law. Snooze, lose.
If they were stupid enough to let it go for 20 yrs then they got what they deserved. Stupid people bet there were signs all along their neighbors were takers. It’s just like the people in my neighborhood that I hardly know wanting to know if I’d wash their clothes for them. It is a neighborhood where immigrants have stuffed dirty poopy diapers in my front yard bushes till I learned who was doing it and told them to never do it again. They throw their shopping bags in their front yards so it winds up all over and take their stuff in the arms to their house. They toss and throw everything abandon the houses when they leave with toys left in the front yards and leave their pets behind . The were not raised and haven’t learned in this country their are rules and they apply to them, as much as 12 people in a house they check the mail box every day for their mail and put the rest back in the box. If we had strickter laws mail carriers could report how many families to a house. The slum lords don’t care they charge a high rental and don’t care if one family lives their or many more. If any of you out there don’t think Salisbury has an immigrant problem wake up!!!!