Herron v. Boggs

STEPHENSON, Justice.

The trial court entered judgment holding that movants were estopped from claiming any interest in that portion designated PARK in the subdivision plat upon which respondents had erected a home. The Court of Appeals affirmed. We granted discretionary review and reverse.

The respondent Boyd L. Boggs, in 1959, subdivided and developed a parcel of land known as Dixie Belle Subdivision. A plat was recorded in the county court clerk’s office. The recorded plat designates each lot by number. In the south central portion of the plat is a 9.70-acre tract without a number and with…