Jason Fauntleroy went to a sheriff’s auction in 2021 to do something fairly ordinary: buy a cheap piece of land where he could eventually build a home. He placed a $5,000 bid on what he understood to be a vacant lot in Trenton, Ohio, a small city north of Cincinnati, and won. Then the paperwork arrived, informing him that he was now the owner of an entire street.

As WCPO-TV reported, the parcel Fauntleroy had actually bought was Bloomfield Court, a private road with five occupied houses on it. He didn’t own the houses, just the road that ran past them, which is the kind of sentence that shouldn’t be possible and yet apparently........

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