Roberts v. Allison

RAMEY, Chief Justice.

In this property dispute Appellants claim an easement by estoppel in a road across Appellee’s land, or alternatively, they contend that the Appellee or his predecessors dedicated the easement to the public. After a jury trial, the court granted Appellee a judgment notwithstanding the verdict, from which Appellant has appealed. We will affirm.

Appellants and Appellee owned contiguous tracts of land; there has been no common ownership of the parcels. At the time of trial, the only path of ingress and egress to Appellants’ property was by a road over Appellee’s land;…