Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-07-09 08:09:19.000394+00
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Affirmed and Majority Memorandum                   Opinion     and    Concurring
Memorandum Opinion filed July 6, 2023.

                                     In The

                    Fourteenth Court of Appeals

                              NO. 14-21-00266-CV

                          LARRY JOHNS, Appellant

                                        V.

      CARL R. GRANTOM AND LEIGH ANN GRANTOM, Appellee

                   On Appeal from the 333rd District Court
                            Harris County, Texas
                      Trial Court Cause No. 2018-42908

                CONCURRING MEMORANDUM OPINION

      I concur in the judgment.

      Either the legislature or the courts must address the precision of modern
surveying and the reality that most fences aren’t erected with such precision. I
question whether the traditional test for adverse possession should be revisited in
light of modern technology. Does the law require that every new fence built in an
urban area must be done in conjunction with a surveyor to protect the lot
ownership against a future adverse-possession claim?

      Because we need not decide that issue today, I respectfully concur.

                                       /s/       Charles A. Spain
                                                 Justice

Panel consists of Justices Spain, Poissant, and Wilson (Wilson, J., majority).

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