Drescher v. Johannessen
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Justice INDEGLIA,
for the Court.
Before this Court is the plaintiffs appeal of a Superior Court judgment declaring that the plaintiff, Allen J. Drescher (Drescher or plaintiff), failed to establish an easement by prescription over a right-of-way owned by the defendant, Sigurd W. Johannessen (Johannessen or defendant). In the trial court, Drescher was equally unsuccessful in his attempt to prove that the right-of-way at issue also constituted a dedicated public road. Though mindful of Drescher’s intermittent use of the disputed right-of-way for almost twenty-five years to access his…
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