Lazy Dog Ranch v. Telluray Ranch Corp.

Opinion by

Judge PLANK.

Defendants, Telluray Ranch Corporation and Charles Ergen, appeal the judgment entered by the trial court allowing the placement of cattle guards on a railroad grade road and granting to plaintiffs, Lazy Dog Ranch and Robert E. Grunow, an easement of 60 feet in width along the railroad grade road. We affirm.

Harry McClure previously owned approximately 8,000 acres of land called the Pleasant Valley Ranch. The southern two-thirds of the property was divided from the northern third by an abandoned railroad grade which had been used as a road since the 1950s. The eastern end…