{"id":484,"date":"2016-07-03T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=484"},"modified":"2023-12-15T22:00:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T22:00:45","slug":"adverse-possession-denied-when-permission-was-mistakenly-sought-from-non-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2016\/07\/03\/adverse-possession-denied-when-permission-was-mistakenly-sought-from-non-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"Adverse possession denied when permission was mistakenly sought from non-owner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Wisconsin Supreme Court held in\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wicourts.gov\/sc\/opinion\/DisplayDocument.pdf?content=pdf&amp;seqNo=116900\" target=\"_blank\">Wilcox<em>\u00a0v. Estate of Hines<\/em>,<\/a>\u00a0849 N.W.2d 280 (Wis. 2014), that owners who thought a strip of land was not theirs but sought permission from someone who was not the true owner cannot establish adversity even though they occupied the property without permission of the actual owner.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/adverse-possession\/\" rel=\"tag\">Adverse Possession<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wisconsin Supreme Court held in\u00a0Wilcox\u00a0v. Estate of Hines,\u00a0849 N.W.2d 280 (Wis. 2014), that owners who thought a strip of land was not theirs but sought permission from someone who was not the true owner cannot establish adversity even though they occupied the property without permission of the actual owner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adverse-possession"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}