Shaw v. Hardy’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “It is true that Hardy may have an “interest” in the placement of the boundary line in the sense that he may be concerned with its ultimate placement and his potential liability, if any, to his grantee but this does not give him any adverse claim to the property claimed by Shaw so as to bring him within the purview of the statutes above quoted. Having parted with any interest in, or claim to, this proper ty and there being no showing of his having reacquired any interest in it, Hardy was neither a necessary nor proper party defendant and his motion for summary judgment should have been granted. 3”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mulherin-Howell v. Cobb