the title agent and surveyor did their job and the county engineer still ignored it

They built their parking lot over the right of way! People - read the reports before you build!

The title search was put together by the Ohio Bar Title Insurance Co., with Bill Geyer as local agent. Title insurance of $200,000 was taken out.

Noted in the title search is that two of the tracts of land were separated from the remaining purchased land by a strip of land that was former railroad right-of-way acquired by the Downing Companies.

A survey map by TCW Inc., a New Lexington engineering firm, also confirmed the title search. Read more...