Cooper v. Pogue

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• holding that even a use established while trespassing can constitute a nonconforming use because zoning status is unaffected by disputes between private parties
• concluding that an adjacent landowner's use of a parcel as a junkyard without formal permission from the parcel's landowner established a lawful nonconforming use of that property for a junkyard
• concluding that an adjacent landowner’s use of a parcel as a junkyard without formal permission from the parcel’s landowner established a lawful nonconforming use of that property for a junkyard
• \Zoning law has no application to the resolution of disputes between private parties over real estate interests.\
• “Zoning law has no application to the resolution of disputes between private parties over real estate interests.”
• zoning ordinances regulate usage; if use permitted, municipality may not regulate the manner of ownership of the legal estate

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).