Elk Horn Ranch, Inc. v. Board of County Commissioners

HILL, Justice.

[T1] The Appellant in this case is the Elk Horn Ranch, Inc. The owners of the Elk Horn Ranch are Werner and Dorothy For-tak. We will refer to the Appellant as the Fortaks in this opinion. Charles and Olive Crago, and their son Jerry Crago, operate an adjoining ranch, although its owner is the Crago Ranch Trust. We will refer to that entity as the Cragos. The Cragos asserted that they had no enforceable means of access to their ranch because, in 2008, the Fortaks began denying the Cragos the use of a road that they had used for at least the preceding 50 years. The Fortaks…