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Property Keyed to Sprankling
Howard v. Kunto
Citation:
477 P.2d 210 (1970).ProfessorTodd Berman
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Facts
The Howards (the plaintiff-respondents) owned a parcel of land and had a survey done so that they could convey an interest in their land to another party. Their surveyor determined that the deed descriptions and land occupancy of their property and the adjacent properties did not match up. The plaintiff-respondents discovered they actually owned the parcel of land to the west of them, and the owners of the property to the west of them (the Moyers) actually owned the land immediately to the west of them, property then occupied by the Kuntos (the defendant-appellants). The Moyers and the plaintiff-respondents then came to a deal where the plaintiff-respondents gave the Moyers the deed to the property on which the Moyers’ house stood, and in exchange, the Moyers gave the plaintiff-respondents the deed to the land on which the defendant-appellants’ house stood.
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