Legal Opinion
Chaconas v. Meyers
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided August 2, 1983No. 82-555PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KELLY, Associate Judge,
Retired:
This is an appeal from an order of the trial court granting appellees’ request to establish a prescriptive right-of-way across the northern portion of appellant’s property for the purposes of placing garbage for weekly collection in a public alley and gaining access to and from a nearby street. As grounds for its order, the court found that appellees had presented a prima facie case for a prescriptive easement and that appellant had not rebutted the resulting presumption of adverse user. The court also ruled in the alternative that appellees established by the…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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- Larue v. KosichArizona Supreme Court · 1947
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