Shearer v. Hodnette

In 1957 six joint owners of a private drive leading to their respective river-front lots executed an instrument, giving the right to use the northernmost 900 feet of the drive to Retired Circuit Court Judge and Mrs. Robert E. Hodnette, Jr. The document was prepared by Judge Hodnette, who was then a practicing attorney. It provided that the Hodnettes would be granted the personal right to use the road "as a road for ingress and egress to and from said property owned by [the Hodnettes] and that portion on which they contemplate building a home." The Hodnettes gave one dollar in consideration…