Corn Insurance Agency, Inc. v. Darby Builders, Inc.

Lyle Brown, Justice.

The chancellor held that appellant, Corn Insurance Agency, Inc., had no standing to prevent an adjoining landowner, one of the appellees, from amending the latter’s bill of assurance so as to materially change the use by the adjoining landowner of an area described on its plat as “utility and greenery easements”. The single point advanced for reversal is; “The chancellor erred in holding that an easement dedicated to the public by plat and bill of assurance inures only to the benefit of owners of the platted property”.

In 1962 appellant Corn bought a five acre tract…