Nooteboom v. Bulson

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• concluding that title vested, as a matter of law, when the requirements of adverse possession were met, and finding it unnecessary to consider the nature and frequency of the defendants’ activities on the property after they moved away from it
• stating, in a different context, that “the significance of a fence and of its state of repair in any particular case depends on the character of the land and what the fence communicates to others about possession of the disputed property”
• extent to which fence was needed to contain livestock relevant to assigning significance for adverse possession claim
• “[T]he significance of [an improvement on land] in any particular case depends on the character of the land and what the [improvement] communicates to others about possession of the disputed property.”
• “the significance of a fence and of its state of repair in any particular case depends on the character of the land and what the fence communicates to others about possession of the disputed property”
• “When defendants acquired their interest in the prop- erty in 1947, defendant Eugene Bulson walked the fence line with his grandfather and understood from doing so that the fence marked the property’s boundary.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).