Drescher v. Johannessen
Annotate this CaseThe issue before the Supreme Court in this case was the Plaintiff Allen Drescher's appeal of a Superior Court judgment declaring that he failed to establish an easement by prescription over a right-of-way owned by Defendant Sigurd W. Johannessen. At trial, Plaintiff was unsuccessful in his attempt to prove that the right-of-way at issue also constituted a dedicated public road. Though mindful of Plaintiff's intermittent use of the disputed right-of-way for almost twenty-five years to access his property, the Supreme Court found no error in the trial justice's determination that Plaintiff failed to demonstrate the requisite elements for a prescriptive easement by clear and convincing evidence. Likewise, the Court held that the trial justice arrived at the proper conclusion in finding that the right-of-way was not a public road.
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