Scruggs v. Harris

By JUDGE JAMES E. KULP

In this case the plaintiffs have brought a Declaratory Judgment action to determine their right to an easement across defendants’ property. The plaintiffs claim title to a strip of land approximately 123 feet long and 40 feet wide which they purchased at an escheatment sale and received a quitclaim deed therefore in 1984. The strip of land in question is bordered on three sides by property held by the defendant Trustees for Chamberlayne Baptist Church, and the defendants English hold the land bordering the fourth side. The plaintiffs claim an easement of necessity across…