Houston – A lawsuit was dismissed in an “adverse possession” case, a woman said, that nearly cost her a home that had been in her family for more than 70 years.

Glory Gendrett contacted 2 Investigates in April about her home on Clover St., near Scott, in Houston’s Sunnyside neighborhood.

“It’s a huge part of my family because my father built that house,” said Gendrett during an interview in April.

Gendrett said the home was built in the 1940s, and she moved out in 2014 because a break-in prompted security concerns.

She also said she couldn’t afford to keep paying property taxes and was working with her five siblings to figure out what to do with the house.

Gendrett then asked her son for help after learning a man claimed to live in the home.

“I saw a guy approach me and say this wa

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