Legal Opinion

Babcock Enterprises, Inc. v. Wilderness Club

Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Somerset County

Decided July 28, 1982No. 94 Civil 1980Published

1Opinion of the Court

COFFROTH, P.J.,

This action to quiet title brought by plaintiff landowner claiming a prescriptive right of way easement over the adjoining land of defendants, is now under advisement for decision following nonjury trial.

There are two issues involved: (1) whether plaintiffs evidence sufficiently establishes the requisite 21 years’ adverse use of a road across defendants’ land by plaintiff, its predecessors in title and others, and (2) if so, whether defendants have established that the road “passes through uninclosed [sic] woodland” with the legal result that “no right of way shall be . . .…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Costa v. LairSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1976
  2. Bellomini v. State Employees' Retirement BoardSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1982
  3. Becker v. RittenhouseSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1929
  4. Minteer v. WolfeSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1982
  5. Conn v. Pennsylvania RailroadSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1927

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