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Highways - Title Which An Abutter May Obtain In A Public Street By Adverse Possession, Michigan Law Review
Highways - Title Which An Abutter May Obtain In A Public Street By Adverse Possession, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
By the plat, the lots of P and D in the unincorporated village of Crescent were separated by a street sixty-six feet wide. Actually the street was never opened and only the twenty feet abutting P's property had been used as a way of access to land held by P and D and others. The remaining two-thirds of the street had been fenced by D and used by him as his for thirty years. P brought a statutory action to vacate the streets of the village. D cross-petitioned to have title to the fenced area quieted in him. Held …