Phillips Industries, Inc. v. Firkins

SILAK, Judge.

Phillips Industries, Inc. (Phillips), sold a portion of land adjoining its grain elevator *695complex to Richard and Barbara Firkins (the Firkinses). Phillips claims the right to an easement right-of-way over an asphalt lot and a gravel lot on the property conveyed to the Firkinses. An easement was expressly reserved in the conveyance from Phillips to the Firkinses for the purpose of providing Phillips’s trucks with access to its loading and unloading facilities. The Firkinses claim that the reservation, which was drafted by Phillips’s attorney, unambiguously limits the easement to…