Majors v. Bush

Clarence A. Majors and his wife, Ethel, filed this suit in Jackson County, Missouri, to enjoin the defendant, Alma L. Bush, from using a lane over land owned by the Majors as an outlet to a public road. The defendant filed an answer wherein she asserted she had a right to use the lane because she had an easement therein by virtue of a contract and also because she had used the roadway openly, notoriously and adversely for a period of twenty-four years. The trial court, after hearing evidence, entered a decree for the defendant. The theory of the trial court, as stated in the decree, was as…