Pierce v. Wise

Phipps, Judge.

Claiming that he lacks any other reasonable means of access to his property, Larry Pierce filed a petition in the Superior Court of Forsyth County for condemnation of a private way of necessity over the adjacent lands of John Kenneth Wise and Hopeful, LLC. Pierce also sought damages on various theories, including intentional infliction of emotional distress. After the trial court denied the parties’ cross-motions for summary judgment on the issue of Pierce’s necessity for the private way, the case proceeded to a jury trial. After the court granted Wise’s motion for directed…