205 F. Supp. 2d 443 - Netsky v. Sewer’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
2 district ·
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Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1406 (§ 306 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Quiroga v. Hasbro, Inc. · Lawrence v. National Westminster Bank New Jersey
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“The acts required to accomplish adverse possession will, of course, vary depending upon the nature of the property itself and the uses to which it is adaptable. A barren tract of land might be reduced to possession, hostile to the ownership of the record titleholder, by merely erecting a fence. Yet, a piece of city land suitable for commercial use might require more definitive acts before one could be said to have hostilely asserted his or her claim of right. For the purposes of this case, it seems sufficient to hold that a hostile claim of right is present when one does such acts on land “as ordinarily only an owner would do, such as construction of buildings and making of improvements, or the payment of taxes.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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