Crone v. Brumley

OPINION

Opinion by

SARAH B. DUNCAN, Justice.

The dispositive issue in this appeal is whether the evidence is legally sufficient to support the jury’s findings that an easement south from the Brumleys’ Ranch across Sandra Crone’s Sycamore Ranch to Highway 2523 was “necessary” when the properties were severed in 1923 and at the time of trial. Because there is no evidence that a public road abutted the Sycamore Ranch on the south in 1923 and there is conclusive evidence of legal access to the Brumley Ranch from Highway 277/377 to the north, we hold the evidence is legally insufficient to support…