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by pfarnsworth
3439 days ago
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If you read the article, the lawsuit isn't to force the owners to sell their land. They don't even know they own the land. Zuckerberg tracked down 300 heirs of a small piece of land that was never transferred properly decades previous. The lawsuit is a formality to first find all the owners, and to declare them owners of parts of the land, so that he can negotiate with them. Again, RTFA. |
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He isn't conducting the lawsuit out of some strange desire to figure out who is related to whom, or to clarify some papers. The purpose of a quiet title lawsuit is to steal a piece of land from its owners.
Discovering who the other claimants are is the first step in this process. The second step in this process is... To force them to put their land up for auction, where it will be sold to the highest bidder. The current landowners have no say in this. [1]
And, at the end of the process, Zuckerburg's investigation and attourney fees will be billed to... The owners of the land. For some of those parcels, they are quite likely to be higher then the cost of the parcels.
You couldn't come up with a less fair law if you tried - because it was specifically designed to benefit a wealthy party, that wants to take possession of a bunch of land, and the only thing in the way is a bunch of peasants who refuse to sell.
[1] http://www.staradvertiser.com/2017/01/18/business/facebooks-...