Ward v. Trimac Investments, LLC

MYERS, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Trimac Investments, LLC owns an eighty-acre tract of land in Forrest County, Mississippi. The Trimac property is surrounded by land owned by others, and it has no direct access to a public road. Trimac sought a right-of-way so it could harvest timber on the property. It brought suit in the County Court of Forrest County to establish a private road over the properties of Janice Ward, William Ward, Rita Collins, and Linda Sten-nett (collectively the Wards). Trimac proceeded under Mississippi Code Annotated section 65-7-201 (Rev.2005), which permits a private road to…