Burgess v. Sweet

DOWD, Chief Judge.

A prescriptive easement case.

In this court tried case, defendants appeal from a judgment finding that plaintiffs had a prescriptive easement allowing the use of a road running across defendants’ property and further enjoining defendants from blocking said roadway. Judgment was also rendered in favor of plaintiffs on defendants’ counterclaim for damages due to trespassing. Judgment affirmed and remanded with directions.

Plaintiffs were owners of 185 acres of land situated in St. Francois County, which they purchased from Dorothy Yates in 1981. The Yates owned the property for…