Heydon v. Mediaone of Southeast Michigan, Inc

Plaintiffs appeal as of right the trial court’s order granting summary disposition in defendant’s favor and dismissing plaintiffs’ claims. Because a prescriptive easement in gross, commercial in nature, may be apportioned and because the apportionment of the easement in this matter does not materially or unreasonably increase the burden on the servient estate, we affirm.

This matter arises from a dispute over whether defendant acquired the right to enter plaintiffs’ land to place and maintain cable television lines on already existing utility poles that Detroit Edison (Edison) used to transmit…