Kiler v. Beam

ROSALYN B. BELL, Judge.

Ralph Kiler brought suit in the Circuit Court for Carroll County to enjoin Ralph and Mary Beam 1 from interfering with his use of a roadway over the Beams’ property. That suit was brought in 1976 and the matter flared and simmered for years. In 1983 an Amended Bill of Complaint was filed which additionally asserted a right to the roadway by prescription. A hearing was held before a master, who found that Kiler had acquired a prescriptive use of the roadway. Exceptions were taken and argued, and the court overruled the Master’s Report and Recommendation. The question on…