Legal Opinion
Thompson v. McDougal
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided February 26, 2001No. A00A2007PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Pope, Presiding Judge.
Howard and Arlene Thompson appeal the trial court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Victor McDougal which upheld McDougal’s claim of a prescriptive easement over the Thompsons’ property. The Thompsons assert that there are issues of fact.
Construed in favor of the Thompsons, the facts show that in 1963 McDougal leased property fronting on Lake Burton from Georgia Power Company. The property was not accessible by road at the time, but a logging road that ran across the Thompsons’ property came to within 100 yards. At some point in the 1960s, Thompson graded a road or…
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- First Christian Church v. Realty Investment Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1934
- Eileen B. White & Associates, Inc. v. GunnellsSupreme Court of Georgia · 1993
- Hasty v. WilsonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1967
- City of Atlanta v. Georgia Railroad & Banking Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1919
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