Yorlum Properties, Ltd. v. Lincoln County

¶1 Carol Miller owned two adjacent parcels of real property in Lincoln County near Eureka, Montana. In March 2005, she conveyed one of the parcels to William and Janet Biggerstaff (the Biggerstaffs). Miller purported in the conveyance to reserve an easement over the Biggerstaffs’ parcel for the benefit of Miller’s retained parcel. In August 2006, Miller conveyed her retained parcel to Yorlum Properties Ltd. (Yorlum).

¶2 Thereafter, a dispute arose among Yorlum, the Biggerstaffs, and Lincoln County concerning the validity of the reserved easement. Yorlum commenced this action in the Nineteenth…