Bolduc v. Thompson

Although it is said that good fences make good neighbors, sometimes, they make messy lawsuits. This is such a case. Plaintiffs possess an easement to use a roadway across the northern portion of defendant’s 1 property to obtain access to their property. Defendant plans to construct a gate across the easement and to build a fence connecting that gate to the boundary between the parties’ properties. Plaintiffs objected and initiated this action for declaratory and injunc-tive relief to resolve the dispute. The trial court allowed the construction of the gate, but it imposed significant…