Martinez v. Wells

OPINION

THORNE, Judge:

NATURE OF THE CASE

¶ 1 Glen L. Wells appeals a jury verdict granting Paul Blaine Martinez an easement across Wells’s property. We affirm.

BACKGROUND 1

¶ 2 In 1944, the Conover family purchased several hundred acres of property located approximately twenty miles southeast of Price, Utah, and north of Sunnyside, Utah (the Conover Property). Prior to the purchase, Jay (aka Gay) Pagano owned land (Pagano Property) adjacent to that purchased by the Conovers.

¶ 3 The Conover Property and Pagano Property were roughly divided by a mountain ridge. A dirt road, the “Left Fork road,”…