Kelley v. Westover

John F. Stroud, Jr., Judge.

This is a prescriptive easement case in which appellants, Eugene and Joye Kelley, claim a prescriptive right of passage over property belonging to appellees, William F. Westover, William E. Westover, and Patricia M. Westover. The chancellor determined that appellants had sporadically crossed appellees’ property for more than twenty years, but that their use of the property was not continuous and uninterrupted, and therefore had not established a prescriptive easement. We agree and affirm.

In 1951, appellee William F. Westover purchased twenty acres of unimproved…