Highway Garden

Philadelphia is not immune from a man’s adverse possession claim relating to a vacant plot of land near his home, which he has tended to as a garden for the last 25 years, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled. The city had condemned the land to use during the construction of a highway.

HARRISBURG, Pa. – Philadelphia is not immune from a man’s adverse-possession claim relating to a vacant plot of land near his home, which he has tended to as a garden for the last 25 years, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled. The city had condemned the land to use during the construction of a highway.

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