Hill v. U.S. Life Title Insurance Co. of New York

OPINION

LEWIS, Judge.

This is an appeal by defendant, U.S. Life Title Insurance Company of New York (U.S. Life), from a judgment awarding plaintiffs Ronnie Hill and John Taylor the sum of $25,000 as damages and dismissing U.S. Life’s third-party complaint against Dr. John Clarence Leonard (Leonard) in which U.S. Life had asked that the easement in question be declared abandoned and removed from the record as a cloud upon plaintiffs’ title.

The pertinent facts are as follows:

On April 3, 1980, plaintiffs purchased a 676.94 acre farm in Marshall County, Tennessee, from John D. Lambert, executor of…