Wels v. Hippe

The decision of the Court of Appeals is reversed. The judgment of the circuit court is reversed, and the case is remanded to the circuit court for further proceedings.

*571LANDAU, J.

Plaintiff seeks a prescriptive easement over an existing road that crosses defendants’ property. To establish a prescriptive easement, the law requires (among other things) that plaintiffs use of the road was adverse to the rights of the owners of the property. The dispute in this case is whether plaintiff satisfied the requirement to prove such adverse use. The trial court found that plaintiff did establish adverse…