Martin v. Burnham

RUDMAN, Justice.

Plaintiffs, Duncan C. Martin and H.J. Crabbe and Sons, Ltd, appeal from the judgment entered after a jury-waived trial in the Superior Court (Aroostook County, Archibald, A.R.J.) denying their claim to a public easement over an abandoned county way across the Defendants’ land. We affirm the decision of the trial court.

Martin and Crabbe own large parcels of land accessible from a public way only by travelling an abandoned county road across the Burnhams’ property. The road was originally laid out by the Aroostook County Commissioners in 1868, but has not been maintained through…