Petrus v. Nature Conservancy

Tom Glaze, Justice.

This case is a sequel to Nature Conservancy v. Kolb, 313 Ark. 110, 853 S.W.2d 864 (1993). In Kolb, this court determined that the Nature Conservancy and Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission’s predecessors-in-title had obtained a 100-foot-wide easement, not a fee simple interest, in a strip of land across the north half of a section of land in Lonoke County, so long as that land was used for railroad purposes. Kolb and others who owned property adjoining the disputed easement filed suit to quiet title, alleging that, when the right-of-way was no longer used for railroad…