Firebaugh v. Boring

In 1977 the defendants deposited a load of dirt in a private roadway, preventing the plaintiffs from using the roadway to reach their house, which was then under construction. The plaintiffs removed the dirt and thereafter filed this suit to (1) quiet title to a claimed prescriptive easement in the plaintiffs over the defendants’ land, and (2) to enjoin defendants permanently from blocking or interfering with the easement. The trial court granted the requested relief, and the defendants appealed. The Court of Appeals reversed, holding "that the easement over defendants’ land was for the…