Legal Opinion
Gordon v. Hoy
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided January 18, 1971No. Record 7184PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHarman, J.
The issue before us here is whether an easement or right of way granted “as an inlet and outlet” gives the owner of the dominant estate a right to install underground water and gas lines to serve the dominant estate within the easement over the servient estate.
By deed dated April 18, 1892, Edmond Courtney and Annie Courtney, his wife, conveyed a lot of approximately 9000 square feet in Augusta County 1 to James Jones and Alice B. Jones, his wife. The lot conveyed was the “rear or northern portion” of a one acre lot fronting on Waynesboro Road which was conveyed to Edmond Courtney in 1884.
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2Cases cited2 opinions
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