McClung v. Ayers

OPINION

Opinion by

Chief Justice MORRISS.

For decades, the McClung family reached their landlocked property in Franklin County, Texas, by crossing through a neighboring property owned by the Ayers family. In 2000, Irene Ayers, sole owner of the Ayers property at that time, refused to let the McClungs cross her property any longer. In July 2009, after trying other options to access their property, the McClungs filed suit against Ayers, alleging that they had established an easement across her property by at least one of four alternative theories — prescription, estoppel, necessity, and…