Family, DNR head to court in Columbia County property dispute

Milw Journal Sentinel

...The Elmers contend that they should get to keep the land based on a property law that's changed repeatedly over the past 30 years. The law covers how long an owner has to claim their land if someone else is openly using it.

That argument could be a hard sell, however. Two weeks ago, a Green Bay family lost a similar battle in court with the DNR over its lakefront cottage near Crivitz on Lake Noquebay.

In that case, during a routine survey of the area in 2003, Marinette County used a global positioning system and discovered the land where Gerald Wied's family cabin sits was actually state property.