Blevins v. Welch

LEWIS, Judge.

This appeal arises from an order holding defendants in contempt for violating a court order. The basis is defendants' obstruction of plaintiff's enjoyment of an easement he purportedly has that runs across defendants' lands. Although the immediate issue on appeal is the contempt order, a resolution of this issue actually requires us to delve nearly two decades into the past and consider the judgment that awarded plaintiffs predecessors-in-title the easement in the first place.

As the map below illustrates, plaintiff and defendants are neighboring landowners in Mitchell County.…