A judge has argued a retired builder to give a long-term border conflict on a 16-inch strip of land that has left him with a legal account of £ 200,000.
Samuel Horton, 69, was hit by the enormous demand after losing a dispute with his neighbor Jonathan Orchard across the border between their houses in Essex.
Although he was ordered by a court to pay Mr. Orchard's costs, Mr. Horton said yesterday that he did not have the money and added: “I will not hand over any cent. I don't regret a bit because I am on the right and had no choice. '
In the meantime, Mr. Orchard, a 65-year-old semi-retired insurance adviser, also said that he does not intend to drop the case and is planning to chase Mr Horton for the full amount.
He said, “If I have to knock on their front door with a cardboard box for their possessions so that they can move, I will do that.”
The dispute in the village Downham began when Mr. Horton and his broker Vrouw Kathleen, 68, sold their £ 815,000 house with three bedrooms and moved to their detached garage, which they had converted in 2020 into a real estate with two bedrooms.
However, the couple was told by the planning of officers that part of a retaining wall they had built for the conversion was 16 centimeters too close to the garden of Mr Orchard and his wife Carolyn.
For their part, the Hortons then claimed that the garden fence that separated their property was not on the true border.
Samuel Horton, 69, depicted, was hit by the enormous question after losing a dispute with his neighbor Jonathan Orchard across the border between their houses in Essex.
Mr Horton was ordered by a court to pay the costs of Mr Orchard, costs
The argument was initially brought to Chelmsford County Court and then three times for judges of the Supreme Court, where the Hortons lose each time – and their legal bills increase – while judges ruled that the limit was where the orchards said.
This year the Hortons were instructed to pay the test costs of the orchards, which were estimated to be £ 145,000.
The Hortons were also instructed to cover the costs of their further applications in the case, together with £ 35,000 damage – in addition to their own legal accounts up to £ 100,000.
At the Supreme Court, Mr. Justice Miles begged the Hortons to give up their fight after their lawyer told him that they could not pay because their only income is from their state pensions.
The judge rejects their last application and said: 'They must face the fact that the limit was where the judge ordered. There must be an end to a lawsuit. '
But Mr. Horton is not going to observe this warning. He told the mail that he built the new house with two bedrooms on the original feet of the garage and claimed that his neighbor was given a surveyor to effectively draw the boundary line.
He disputed that he organized a mini land grip.
The dispute in the village of Downham began when Mr. Horton and his female broker Kathleen, 68, sold their £ 815,000 house with three bedrooms, left and moved to their detached garage, the middle, which they had converted into a real estate with two bedrooms , in 2020
For their part, the Hortons then claimed that the garden fence that separated their property was not on the true border
And he was adequate that he did not have the means to pay the huge bill: “We don't have the money, so won't pay.”
Last night, Mr Orchard, who moved to his property in 1999, was not willing to make a compromise in the same way. He said he had spent his entire life saving money with fighting the case, with countless judicial judgments in his favor.
Mr Orchard said to the mail: 'Although the courts have chosen with us if we are entitled, they refuse to accept the ruling. They are the definition of neighbors from hell. '
He added: “They can claim that they don't have the money, but they have sold their house for £ 815,000, so that they have the money, even after building their smaller house.”
The orchards currently have an order against the Hortons who keep them from quadrating their little back garden at the Nieuwgebouw.
A plastic red fence has been installed by the Hortons to identify which part of the country they claim it is theirs.
