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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums(St. Louis) Portland Place couple who confronted protesters have a long history of not backing down
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/portland-place-couple-who-confronted-protesters-have-a-long-history-of-not-backing-down/article_281d9989-373e-53c3-abcb-ecd0225dd287.htmlBut public records and interviews reveal a fuller picture than emerged two weeks ago. They show the McCloskeys are almost always in conflict with others, typically over control of private property, what people can do on that property, and whose job it is to make sure they do it.
They filed a lawsuit in 1988 to obtain their house, a castle built for Adolphus Buschs daughter and her husband during St. Louis brief run as a world-class city in the early 20th century. At the McCloskeys property in Franklin County, they have sued neighbors for making changes to a gravel road and twice in just over two years evicted tenants from a modular home on their property.
Mark McCloskey sued a former employer for wrongful termination and his sister, father and his fathers caretaker for defamation.
The McCloskeys have filed at least two quiet title suits asserting squatters rights on land theyve occupied openly and hostilely their terms and claimed as their own. In an ongoing suit against Portland Place trustees in 2017, the McCloskeys say they are entitled to a 1,143-square-foot triangle of lawn in front of property that is set aside as common ground in the neighborhoods indenture.
They filed a lawsuit in 1988 to obtain their house, a castle built for Adolphus Buschs daughter and her husband during St. Louis brief run as a world-class city in the early 20th century. At the McCloskeys property in Franklin County, they have sued neighbors for making changes to a gravel road and twice in just over two years evicted tenants from a modular home on their property.
Mark McCloskey sued a former employer for wrongful termination and his sister, father and his fathers caretaker for defamation.
The McCloskeys have filed at least two quiet title suits asserting squatters rights on land theyve occupied openly and hostilely their terms and claimed as their own. In an ongoing suit against Portland Place trustees in 2017, the McCloskeys say they are entitled to a 1,143-square-foot triangle of lawn in front of property that is set aside as common ground in the neighborhoods indenture.
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(St. Louis) Portland Place couple who confronted protesters have a long history of not backing down (Original Post)
WhiskeyGrinder
Jul 2020
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WhiskeyGrinder
(22,522 posts)1. It goes on and on. I think this one is the worst, though:
Mark McCloskey has run off trustees trying to make repairs to the wall surrounding his property, insisting that he and his wife own it. In 2013, he destroyed bee hives placed just outside of the mansions northern wall by the neighboring Jewish Central Reform Congregation and left a note saying he did it, and if the mess wasnt cleaned up quickly he would seek a restraining order and attorneys fees. The congregation had planned to harvest the honey and pick apples from trees on its property for Rosh Hashanah.
Coventina
(27,224 posts)3. These people sound like they live in their own, self-made hell.
Unfortunately, it is quite apparent their pathological self-hatred is damaging others.
Horrific!!
These people need to be locked up, for society's sake.
yardwork
(61,793 posts)4. Horrible, violent people.
I don't understand why he wasn't arrested and charged for damaging other people's property.
hlthe2b
(102,549 posts)7. They surely are... Repulsive and unredeemable.
dalton99a
(81,707 posts)6. A complete asshole
jcgoldie
(11,658 posts)8. Does it to beehives he'd do it to puppies...
Fuck those evil bastards.
Celerity
(43,764 posts)2. Perfect representatives of the deep-monied backbone of American shitbaggery
marybourg
(12,650 posts)5. "openly and hostiley" are not their terms, but are the
terms of the statute which must be met to establish adverse possession , or "squatters' rights". They are almost as litigious as tRump. No doubt if someone sues them, they scream " frivolous lawsuit" as do most public.ans