Frandorson Properties v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance

OPINION OF THE COURT

ROBERT HOLMES BELL, District Judge.

This action presents a dispute between the owners of two adjoining parcels of property. The dispute concerns the use of an access route which traces the border between the two parcels, but which lies exclusively on defendants’ parcel. Defendants want to alter the access route, though both property owners have freely used it for over 30 years. Based on this longstanding, continuous use, plaintiffs ask the Court to declare that a prescriptive easement has arisen in their favor and to enjoin any alteration of the access route which would…