Another Steve Lehto classic: House on Wrong Lot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMgkv9kAbS4
Similar issue happened to a map customer here in Utah, only wrong Township, not lot. The call from our customer, a surveyor trying to sort out a job, started out “this USGS Topo Map you sold us has the wrong township printed on it”.
So the original owned parcel (1/4 1/4) was 6 miles to the east. The parcel had been sold twice since the ‘mistake’ was made. So current owner had deed to land, with title insurance; purchased from another player, with title insurance; from a third player who’s title cited the correct township by quit claim. I guess the third player would have still owned the original parcel however they had died 20+ years prior, so not much benefit to them.
Not sure how it played out. I got sworn to secrecy and have kept out of the drama for many years. I do know that the Title Insurance companies had an out and claimed it was not their problem.
The owners in trespass had graded the lot, graveled an access road, gotten a permit from the county.
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