Opinion ID: 2015956
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Heading: history of disputed property

Text: When the Wanhas moved into the home on Lot 105, the lot contained no sod and no sidewalk along Orchard Avenue. However, Lot 104 was sodded and had a sidewalk alongside Orchard Avenue, both of which stopped short of Lot 104's eastern boundary. Instead, the sod and edge of the sidewalk paralleled the disputed property line. The Wanhas later built a sidewalk along Orchard Avenue, which extended from the edge of the existing sidewalk on Lot 104 to the northeast corner of Lot 105. The Wanhas also seeded Lot 105 and that portion of Lot 104 up to the western edge of the disputed property. They seeded the disputed property believing that it was part of Lot 105. Sometime between 1973 and 1974, the Shannons, then owners of Lot 104, built a fence between Lots 104 and 105. The fence ran along the disputed property line from the southern property line of Lot 104 to a point east of the back of the house on Lot 104. The Shannons did not discuss the fence with the Wanhas before installing it. The Wanhas believed that the fence was located on the property line between Lots 104 and 105. The subsequent owners of Lot 104, the Holmans, did not object to the location of the fence, and the Wanhas never discussed the fence with them either. Likewise, Jolane Olander Long never discussed the fence with the Wanhas, nor did she register any concern regarding the fence's location. The fence was not modified in any way until it was removed by Robert Long in 1996.