Hall v. Coffey

COMBS, Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment of the Garrard Circuit Court, directing a verdict against appellants in their action to establish an easement by necessity across appel-lees’ land.

Appellee Arnold Coffey owns a farm at the junction of Buckeye Road and Poor Ridge Pike in Garrard County, Kentucky. In 1974, Coffey purchased a landlocked sixteen-acre tract lying at the rear of his original farm. Coffey farmed his entire property, including the sixteen-acre tract, until 1976 when he sold the rear sixteen acres to appellants.

Coffey’s deed to appellants did not make any provisions for an…