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'River Dave's' cabin at center of
property dispute burns to the
ground hours after court hearing

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Posted By: NHChemist, 8/5/2021 12:41:56 PM

CANTERBURY, N.H. — A cabin at the center of a legal battle with a man known as "River Dave" caught fire Wednesday, hours after the man appeared in court for a hearing. The cabin's resident, David Lidstone, will remain in jail for at least another week for not complying with a court order. On Wednesday, the Canterbury Fire Department reported that Lidstone's cabin is a total loss. The State Fire Marshal's Office was called in to investigate the cause of the fire which remains under investigation. "No fire trucks could make access to the scene we used UTVs," said Chief Mike Gamache with Canterbury fire department.

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Merrimack County Superior Court Judge Andrew Schulman took the unusual step of suggesting steps that Canterbury officials and the owner of the land, Vermont resident Leonard Giles, could take to keep Lidstone on the land. Those would include waivers and variances of town ordinances as well as property upgrades that Lidstone would have to pay for. So instead, someone burns him out. 27 years there and it is gone.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: KatieJo 8/5/2021 1:12:35 PM (No. 868991)
He should have said he was a Covid squatter. Poor guy, people just can leave anyone along. Wonder who burned his cabin.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: chumley 8/5/2021 1:37:51 PM (No. 869014)
I own an old civil war era farm. Its mine and I have the deed and pay the ridiculous taxes on it. I get there as often as I can to take care of the land and the house, but it doesn't matter how often I get there. The place is mine. I decide who's allowed on it and who isn't. If I dont want them on my land they have to leave. If they refuse, I'll call the law or run them off myself. Thats what private property is all about. Building a shack on someone else's land does not convey and rights whatsoever.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Bur Oak 8/5/2021 1:47:23 PM (No. 869021)
"Adverse possession is a doctrine under which a person in possession of land owned by someone else may acquire valid title to it, so long as certain common law requirements are met, and the adverse possessor is in possession for a sufficient period of time, as defined by a statute of limitations." If you own property check your state laws.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: hershey 8/5/2021 2:19:33 PM (No. 869053)
Question is, did he know Hillery????
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Reply 5 - Posted by: montwoodcliff 8/5/2021 2:24:03 PM (No. 869056)
Isn't it funny how these things happen? It's the land owner who knows Hillary.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: dst4life 8/5/2021 4:25:16 PM (No. 869190)
So it's determined, several days before the fire, that emergency vehicles cannot reach the property? Is this arson? And if so, who did it? If emergency vehicles cannot reach the property, setting the property on fire would ensure that the cabin burns completely to the ground, is a total loss, and cannot be restored. Was this done to frame someone?
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Reply 7 - Posted by: DVC 8/5/2021 5:27:32 PM (No. 869252)
You shouldn't live on someone else's land seems to be the primary point here. I can't argue with that.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: bighambone 8/5/2021 6:07:46 PM (No. 869284)
Essentially the old man is equal to the homeless people in the cities, if you burned out a homeless encampment in the liberal run cities, that are all on someone else’s land, you can bet that the liberals and law enforcement would be all over you in a minute.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: NHChemist 8/5/2021 6:35:53 PM (No. 869303)
Since River Dave had permission to be there from the prior owner, adverse possession is not a fallback. A law office made the following statement: "To make a claim for adverse possession, the claimant must have acted as if he is the true owner of the property. The claimant must possess the land to the exclusion of all other uses and he must possess the land conspicuously, that is doing things on the property that would show the world that he owns the property. Among those things might be building a house, logging, farming, planting a hedge or building a fence. Further, the claimant must possess the land adversely to the actual owner. This means that the adverse possessor cannot be occupying the land with the permission of the owner. The adverse possessor and the actual title owner are often both under the mistaken belief that the adverse possessor owns the land and the title owner is not giving permission to use land he does not believes he owns. Furthermore, the adverse possessor as acting as the title owner because he believes he is the title owner. In New Hampshire the adverse possessor must do all the above actions continuously for a period of twenty years."
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