Rowe v. Walker

WYNN, Judge.

In January 1970 Jack and Martha Chavis owned a 70.06 acre tract of farmland. Most of the tract lies in southern Person County, but approximately 7.7 acres lie in northern Orange County. On 19 January 1970, Clyde and Mary Walker (defendants’ predecessors in title) acquired an approximately fifty-acre tract of property in Orange County, adjoining the Chavises’ land to the south. Shortly thereafter, the Chavises granted the Walkers a twenty-foot wide easement across the Chavises’ property to allow the Walkers to use a farm road providing access from the north through Person County to…