Maupin v. Bearden

GREENE, Chief Judge.

Plaintiffs, Clayton C. Maupin, Jr. and Mary Lou Maupin, filed suit in the Circuit Court of Wayne County, Missouri, seeking to establish a private road, by reason of strict necessity, across real estate owned by defendants, David L. Bearden and Sharon K. Bearden.

The petition pleaded that the Maupins were owners of certain real estate in Wayne County, that no public road passed through or alongside their land, and, that by reason of strict necessity, it was necessary that a private road be established across the Beardens’ land, which adjoined that of the Maupins’, to a…