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The Gardeners' Property Adjoined the Jones' Property and the Gardeners

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The Gardeners' property adjoined the Jones' property and the Gardeners planted citrus trees along what they thought was the boundary line. The trees were planted in 1980. In 2004, the Jones decided to sell their property and a survey revealed the citrus trees were on their property, not the Gardeners. The Gardeners' trees were three feet into the Jones' property. The prescriptive period in their state is 25 years.


A) The Gardeners now own the extra three feet.
B) The Jones still own the extra three feet.
C) The wall was a mistake and the Gardeners can gain no right from it.
D) Prescriptive rights are not possible when there is a mistake on the boundary lines.

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