Editorial writer Tod Robberson spent months deciphering a complex, massive paper trail — multitudes of interlocking companies and thousands of real estate documents filed with Dallas County.
Perhaps complexity was part of the plan: Inundate county land records with so much paperwork that nobody would have the time or resources to unravel it.
Fonteno says he has done nothing wrong, but experts can’t point to a single time when courts have upheld adverse possession as a means of taking urban houses. Fonteno may believe his tactics are ethical, but this newspaper doesn’t.