Bailiff v. Woolman

At the center of this property dispute are two adjacent parcels of land, which were owned by different members of the same family, who treated the two parcels, for decades, as if they were one property. One parcel (“Lot 3”) has a house on it; the other (“Lot 1”) does not. Appellee Krauss & Weaver, LLC (“K & W”) purchased one of the two parcels believing it was buying the improved Lot 3, a belief shared by the seller, the Estate of Emma J. Gordy (“Estate”). 1 But, what K & W had, in fact, purchased was the unimproved Lot 1.

Had this been the only error, the matter could have been swiftly…