Stephen W. Riffle v. S. David Smith

[¶ 1] S. David Smith and E. Anne Hayes appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court (York County, O’Neil, J.) awarding Stephen W. and Jane F. Riffle a prescriptive easement over a small triangular section of Smith and Hayes’s property for purposes of parking on it and accessing other parts of the Riffles’ parking area. Among other arguments, Smith and Hayes contend that we should adopt a “friendly-neighbor” exception to the presumption of adversity that arises when property is used continuously for at least twenty years “with the owner’s knowledge and acquiescence, or with a use so open,…