Lalonde v. Renaud

Defendants appeal from a trial court judgment declaring that a lot to which defendants claimed title was park area, as designated in the developer’s subdivision plans. We affirm.

All parties are owners of lots in the so-called Kirk and Fitts development, which was created in 1957 and is adjacent to Lake Champlain in Alburg. Plaintiffs collectively own seven lots in the subdivision, but only plaintiffs Jacques and Therese Lalonde purchased their property from the developers, in 1966. All of the plaintiffs’ deeds refer to a map, which the trial court found was recorded1 and which depicted an…