Bickel v. Hansen

OPINION

HOWARD, Presiding Judge. n

This is an appeal from a judgment granting the condemning of a private way of necessity. The determinative issue is whether the trial court erred in finding that the appellees (Bickel) did not already have reasonable access to their property by means of an implied way of necessity. We find that it did and reverse.

FACTS

Bickel owns 20 acres of land in Navajo County, Arizona. It was originally part of a larger tract of land known as Jaques Ranch. The original U.S. patent to the property of which the Bickel land is a small part, was issued in 1890 to William…