Ross v. DeLorenzo

This case involves a boundary dispute. Defendants appeal a judgment entered after a trial to the court declaring the boundary between plaintiffs property and theirs and awarding plaintiff damages for trespass. We review de novo, ORS 19.125(3), and reverse and remand.

The parcels of property at issue are Lots 1 and 2 in Block 2 of the Daley and Emery Additions to Eagle Point. At one time the two lots were owned by Josephine Holmes who built two houses and a duplex east of the houses on them. In 1973, after the three structures had been built, Holmes conveyed Lot 2 to plaintiffs predecessor, who…