Cannon v. Day
Court of Appeals of North Carolina
1Opinion of the Court
*303GEER, Judge.
This appeal arises out of a dispute over whether plaintiffs acquired a prescriptive easement across defendants’ lots permitting use of a private lane to access the public road from plaintiffs’ lot. We hold that plaintiffs’ evidence — that plaintiffs’ predecessors-in-interest used the lane without permission for more than 20 years, maintained the lane, named the lane, and treated the lane as if they owned it— was sufficient to support a verdict in plaintiffs’ favor. The trial court therefore properly submitted the issue to the jury, which ultimately found that a prescriptive…
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