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Resident accuses Saint Louis County processes of enabling improper land claims
Summary
At the Feb. 24 listening session in Cotton, Chester Collins accused the county attorney's office of improperly claiming a road across private land and said a neighbor misused the Cartway statute to obtain an easement; he asked the board for transparency and correction.
Chester Collins told the Saint Louis County Board during the Feb. 24 listening session in Cotton that county legal and administrative processes have been used to "coordinate" the theft of private land. Collins said he has presented evidence that his land was manipulated by neighbors and that the county treated private land as public or tax-forfeited without adequate documentation.
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