Elchos v. Haas
Annotate this CaseThe Elchoses purchased a 1.11 acre parcel of a fifty-acre tract of largely undeveloped land located near and on the Jourdan River in Hancock County near Kiln, Mississippi, from Kevin and Lisa Haas in 2004. The Elchoses proceeded to construct a house partially on property the Haases did not sell or convey to the Elchoses. After an unsuccessful attempt to resolve the dispute, the Haases sued, claiming the Elchoses were trespassing and violating restrictive covenants to which they had agreed at the time of the sale and conveyance. The Elchoses answered and claimed, among other things, that the dispute resulted from a mutual mistake and that the Haases' claims were barred by the doctrines of estoppel and laches. After receiving evidence and testimony at trial, the chancellor found that the Elchoses, who had received a deed, complete with an attached property description and survey, knew or should have known the boundaries of the property they had purchased. The chancellor further found that the Haases were without knowledge of the encroachment until December 2007. Thus, he decreed that the Elchoses had to move the structure off of the Haases' property and onto the property the Elchoses purchased. Aggrieved, the Elchoses appealed the chancellor's judgment to this Court. Finding no reversible error, the Supreme Court affirmed.
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