Gifford v. McGee

Julian Gifford appeals the Mississippi County Circuit Court's order of judgment *219in favor of appellee Darrell McGee. Following a bench trial, the court found that McGee had proved the existence of an oral easement entitling him to the use of a portion of Gifford's property for the purpose of maintaining a septic line. We affirm.

The parties are adjoining landowners outside the city of Blytheville. In 1951, Virgil and Betty McGee purchased approximately twelve and a half acres of land. In 1988, they conveyed 1.28 acres of that land to their son, appellee McGee, so that he could build a home on…