Legal Opinion
Healy v. Onstott
California Court of Appeal
Decided June 10, 1987No. H001639PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BRAUER, J.
We here consider the rights of a co-owner of a private easement who declines to accept the award of an arbitrator appointed pursuant to Civil Code section 845.
That section was originally passed in 1939 and has been amended once, in 1985. The former statute was in effect during the relevant time. Former Civil Code section 845 provided that co-owners of a private right-of-way must share the maintenance of the easement according to an agreement or, “proportionately to the use made of the easement by each owner.” The section further provided: “In the absence of an agreement, any…
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