Black v. Van Steenwyk

Ray Thornton, Justice.

This is a dispute between sisters about the right to use a roadway connecting appellee Linda Van Steenwyk’s home to a county road. The roadway crosses land owned by her sister, Lois M. Black, and Marlin Black, appellants. From the chancellor’s decree granting appellee an easement to use the roadway as established, appellants bring this appeal, asserting also that the chancellor should have recused. We find no reversible error and affirm.

In the early 1950s, W.D. and Lura Gaston, the parents of the sisters, obtained the county’s assistance in building a “new road” across…