Legal Opinion
Jimmy D. Kendall, Jr. v. Kersh May
Court of Appeals of Mississippi
Decided August 16, 2016No. 2015-CA-01548-COAPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
WILSON, J.,
FOR THE COURT:
¶1. Kersh May and Wanda Gayle Mullen May filed a petition to establish a prescriptive easement over Coleman Road in Talla-hatchie County. Coleman Road was once a public road, but the county abandoned it, and it is now a private road located on the property of the defendants/appellants. The defendants formerly allowed the Mays to use the road to access the southern part of the Mays’ property, but since 2013 they have prevented the Mays from doing so. The chancellor found that the Mays’ claim for a prescriptive easement failed as a matter of law because they could not…
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