Nusekabel v. Cincinnati Public School Employees Credit Union, Inc.

Painter, Presiding Judge.

In this case, the city of Cincinnati’s failed attempt to create a subway system in the 1920s haunts a present-day real-estate tangle. Inattention by later parties has created a further mess concerning a parking lot for a building that was built before the automobile’s invention. And the trial court’s well-intentioned action has woven a further and worse tangle. We must cut the knot.

I. The History

In September 1988, Edward and Carol Nusekabel, the plaintiffs-appellees, acquired title to 1009 Marshall Avenue, on which an apartment building extends the property’s entire…