Childress v. Richardson

Lawson Cloninger, Judge.

The issue on this appeal is whether the trial court’s decision that appellees, Robert and Fredricka B. Richardson, had a prescriptive easement for a gas line across the property of appellants, James D. and Leo Irene Childress, was clearly against the preponderance of the evidence. We hold that there was no easement and we must reverse.

Appellants filed suit on November 14, 1982, to quiet title to their residential lot located in Garland County. Appellants had purchased their lot in 1978, and appellees had owned the lot immediately west of appellants’ lot since 1962. The…