Reece v. Smith

Andrews, Presiding Judge.

Jerry and Vicki Reece, who own a tract of undeveloped land bordering on a public road in Bartow County, sued for declaratory and injunctive relief after George Smith, an adjacent landowner, asserted the right to an easement across their land to the road. After a bench trial, the Reeces appeal from the trial court’s order finding that Smith, Elihue Curtis, and Barbara and Richard Harris, 1 as owners of adjacent tracts of land separated from the road by the Reece property, have an easement across the Reece property for the purpose of accessing the public road.

For the…