Posted on 06/30/2018 5:19:20 AM PDT by a little elbow grease
MAPLE HEIGHTS, Ohio -- A 12-year-old Ohio boy's summer vacation was anything but exciting until someone called police on him for doing his job.
Reginald Field started a business cutting grass for his neighbors, but his service at one customer's house resulted in a 911 call.
Fields said everything was going fine until his customer's neighbors called the police, claiming the teen had mowed part of their lawn.
"They said I was cutting their grass," he said. "I didn't know it."
The neighbor told authorities that the teen and his crew had cut a portion of their property and were in their yard.
Fields said he became discouraged after the incident, but then the customer decided to post about the incident on Facebook.
The post received thousands of views and hundreds of shares, and with it, a business boom.
Now, Fields is receiving a lot of support and requests from new clients.
"Just give me a call," he said. "I will be there. On time."
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Agree with Sacajaweau there? I agreed with the technicality and dismissed it in the practical. Seems pretty clear.
Imbecilic? You aren’t familiar with common law “adverse possession” - and you put quotations around your own misunderstanding and attributed them to me, not what I posted. In this case, the right would fall to the person who paid for the mowing, not the kid - though the term of “adverse possession” is 21 years, not 7.
“In order to establish the necessary twenty-one year period, several successive periods of possession by different persons may be “tacked” or added to each other, provided that privity exists between the successive occupants. This means that the successive occupants have to be connected by contract, estate or blood.”
So if the owner of the next door property, or successive owners collectively take care of a portion of their neighbor’s lawn over that time, then can take possession of it. The time varies from state to state.
Calm down and quit digging.
Cheers.
Kid looks like he just wants to mow that yard.
Society tends to stop kids from growing and learning.
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