Ryan v. Stavros

How courts have described this case

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• placing sawhorses in a way did not effectively block an easement
• noting use of business invitees in support of adverse possession claim
• “It is proper to consider the improbability that a grantor who conveyed all her adjoining land would seek to retain such a relatively useless strip”
• “Title by adverse possession can be acquired only by proof of nonpermissive use which is actual, open, notorious, exclusive and adverse for twenty years”
• resort to extrinsic evidence is appropriate to assist interpretation of ambiguous deed descriptions
• walls and fences are reliable indicators of property lines

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).