Broyhill v. Coppage

EAGLES, Judge.

The parties own adjoining land. The two tracts were owned between 1914 and 1931 by Nannie Carter, the great-grandmother of plaintiff Clifton Randolph Broyhill and the grandmother of defendant Carter P. Coppage. Plaintiffs acquired their tract in 1981, at which time they had access to their land only by a road across defendants’ land. A dispute arose over plaintiffs’ use of the road. Defendants placed gates across the road and told plaintiffs they could not use it. This action followed.

At trial, plaintiffs produced evidence that there once existed two roads to their property, the…