Yeckel v. Connell

McINTYRE, Justice.

Dr. Jay Robert Connell and his wife, Irene S. Connell, together with Charles E. Lewton, D. Keith Spencer and Floyd R. King, brought an action against Phil Yeck-el and Jane Yeckel, husband and wife, to establish the right of plaintiffs to a right-of-way easement across lands of the defendants.

The district court held the plaintiffs had an easement through the land of defendants and defendants have appealed. The question we must first decide is whether plaintiffs sustained their burden of proving they had a prescriptive right to an easement over defendants’ land. We find there…