Opinion ID: 2445933
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Heading: Lots 816 and 818

Text: Appellant Sears bought lot 816 from Thomas and Chris Downey (the Downeys) on March 28, 1996, [4] and lot 818 from Thomas Mahr and Karen Nelson on June 26, 2001. [5] Each deed described the property being conveyed with a metes and bounds description and specified the lot number ( i.e., lots 816 and 818) of the deeded property. Neither deed purported to convey, or included a description of, Old Lot 826. To the contrary, in the case of the deed to lot 818, a handwritten note from the seller advised that: Lot 818 is being sold. Land beyond survey line is part of Lot 25 and is not of record to the seller of [lot 818]. As to lot 816, Ms. Downey warned Sears when he bought it in 1996, that we always enjoyed the use of this property, that we held it but we didn't have a deed to it, and that he could legally pursue this if he wanted to.... I said that all of the land did not convey. Whatever was on the deed was on the deed, but they had the full use of the yard and that we had always had it too. (Emphasis added.) [6] Sears testified that he did not receive a quit-claim deed for Old Lot 826 when he bought either of lots 816 or 818. He also admitted that he had never paid property taxes on Old Lot 826.