National Lead Company v. Kanawha Block Company

This appeal involves a controversy over an easement granted by the appellant, National Lead Company, to Kanawha Block Company as part of a real estate transaction in 1946. The easement gave Kanawha access to the 3.9 acre parcel of land which it purchased from National as a site for a concrete block factory. The 1946 deed provided that the easement was established for the exclusive benefit of the parcel of land conveyed by National and that the easement would terminate whenever a public road was built into or through the conveyed property.

A limited access public highway was built across the…