Jones v. King

By Judge William H. Ledbetter, Jr.

In this suit, the court must determine whether King has the right to use an old road that crosses the plaintiffs’ properties for access to his Bleak House Tract.

Facts

The plaintiffs are owners of residences and residential lots in Battlefield Estates and Greenwood Estates subdivisions off Route 3 in the rural Wilderness area of Spotsylvania County. King owns 505 acres known as the Bleak House Tract located to the north of the subdivisions. He also owns an adjoining 71-acre parcel known as the Miller Tract, another adjoining parcel platted as Greenwood Estates…