A man from San Fer­nan­do, whose fam­i­ly has been squat­ting on State land for over 75 years, has scored a le­gal vic­to­ry in his bid to pur­sue a law­suit over dam­age to the prop­er­ty caused by wa­ter from a ma­jor road.

In a pre­lim­i­nary de­ci­sion last week, High Court Judge Robin Mo­hammed dis­missed an ap­pli­ca­tion from the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al to strike out the tres­pass and nui­sance case brought by Pat­ter­son Nel­son.

The law­suit re­lates to a prop­er­ty at Co­coyea Vil­lage, San Fer­nan­do, that Nel­son claimed he and his fa­ther had been in undis­turbed and ex­clu­sive oc­cu­pa­tion of for al­most eight decades.