Thomas F. Werner, Ruth E. Werner, David Litwack, Yvette A. Litwack, William Wargo, Lynn Wargo v. United States

GODBOLD, Senior Circuit Judge:

Appellants, plaintiffs below, are owners of a small parcel of land located on Choctawhat-chee Bay in northern Florida. The property is bounded on three sides by water and on the fourth side by land that is part of Eglin Air Force Base, a facility of the United States. It is physically impossible to enter plaintiffs’ property by land without crossing over the adjoining Eglin land.

On March 15,1991 plaintiffs sued the United States pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2409a(a), 1 the Quiet Title Act, seeking a declaration that they had acquired an easement of necessity pursuant…