Brooks v. Carson

[¶ 1] In this appeal we must decide whether the notice provision, 23 M.R.S. § 3033(1) (2011), of the Paper Streets Act, 23 M.R.S. §§ 3027, 3031-3035 (2011); 33 M.R.S. §§ 460, 469-A (2011),1 that permits a person to assert ownership of all or a portion of a paper street, and preclude others from using the owned portion of the paper street, requires that the person asserting the claim notify all record lot owners in the subdivision that includes the paper street, or only those lot owners that the person asserting ownership of the paper street seeks to exclude from the paper street property.…