Browning v. Preece

Opinion of the Court by

Justice VENTERS.

Appellant, Ben A. Browning, appeals from an order of the Court of Appeals dismissing his appeal for failure to join two indispensable parties to the litigation. He was attempting to appeal an adverse judgment of the Lawrence Circuit Court that granted Appellee, Jefferson Preece, a sixteen-foot easement over both Appellant’s property and Brooksie and Tammie Horn’s property. The Court of Appeals dismissed the appeal because Appellant had failed to name two indispensable parties, specifically Brooksie and Tammie Horn, in his Notice of Appeal. On…