Kohlleppel v. Owens

CLARK, Judge.

In this litigation over disputed easement and user rights between adjoining owners of farmland, an earlier judgment declared respondents Owens entitled to maintain and *861use an access road, an ancillary fence and drainage ditch across Kohlleppel land. Subsequently, the Kohlleppels were charged with violating the terms of the judgment by interfering with use by the Owenses of the road and were cited by the trial court for contempt. Kohlleppels here appeal from the judgment of contempt which awarded damages to the Owenses and ordered the Kohlleppels, husband and wife, to serve a jail…