Legal Opinion
Phillips v. Sommerer
Missouri Court of Appeals
Decided March 19, 1996No. WD 50808PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SPINDEN, Presiding Judge.
For many years, owners of a farm adjacent to Lloyd and Lena Jane (“Jean”) Sommerer’s farm in Cole County used a primitive road across the Sommerer property to get to a *638public Mghway. When the Sommerers suddenly decided to close the road, the owners of the adjacent farm, Mary Phillips and her son Roger, sued for the circuit court’s declaration that they had a prescriptive easement to use the road. The circuit court ruled for the Phillipses. The Sommerers appeal. We affirm the circuit court’s judgment with a minor modification.
Victor and Mary Phillips1 bought the farm…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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- Speer v. CarrSupreme Court of Missouri · 1968
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