In re Private Road in Speers Boro, II

OPINION

Justice EAKIN.

Appellants, Eddie and Cheryl McGavitt, purchased property in Speers Borough, Washington County in 2002. The property is zoned for heavy industrial use, and is bordered by a Norfolk Southern Railroad line to the west, property owned by an industrial development organization to the north, the Monongahela River to the east, and the property of appellee, Guttman Realty Company, to the south. There is no dispute that although appellants’ property has full access to the river, its only land access is over appellee’s property. ■

A public road, across appellee’s property, provided…