Chase v. Fania

CRANDALL, Judge.

The Chases and the Fanias (hereafter plaintiffs and defendants, respectively) reside on adjoining lots in Webster Groves, Missouri. The plaintiffs’ driveway runs along the parties’ common boundary. In 1979, the defendants erected a two- or three-foot high fence just inside their side of the common property line. Asserting that a sixty-foot section of their driveway intrudes about twenty inches onto the defendants’ land, the plaintiffs brought this action for a declaration that they have acquired a prescriptive easement over the strip of land and further sought to enjoin the…