Legal Opinion
Malloy v. Reyes
Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands
Decided July 22, 2014No. S. Ct. Civil No. 2012-0081PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
(July 22, 2014)
CABRET, Associate Justice.
Lori Gilmore Malloy appeals a Superior Court judgment holding that an unpaved trail providing access to her property on St. John is no longer a public right-of-way. We reverse because the Superior Court erred in concluding that the trail was abandoned and that, as a result, the trail lost its public status. Furthermore, we remand for the Superior Court to set out the metes and bounds of the public easement.
I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
First settled by Danish colonists in the 1720s, the east end peninsula of St. John was an…
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