An infamous land grab case pitting two long-time Boulder neighbors against one another has been settled.
In a joint statement released this morning, Edith Stevens and Richard McClean and Don and Susie Kirlin have agreed to divide the land that has become a enormous legal and emotional issue in Boulder and the rest of the state.
“This settlement allows the parties to put this long-standing and difficult dispute behind them,” the statement said.
McLean, a former Boulder District judge and Boulder mayor, and Stevens, an attorney, were awarded land owned by the Kirlins in October 2007 by a district judge after they argued they used a section of the property for at least 18 years. McLean and Stevens argued they had a right to the land under Colorado’s “adverse possession” law. The case prompted state lawmakers to change the adverse possession law.
