Hansuld v. Lariat Diesel Corp.
Annotate this CaseAfter purchasing their property, William and Tia Hansuld notified Lariat Diesel Corporation and Marvin Piel (collectively, “Lariat”) that it could not longer use their property for access. Litigation ensued. This matter was the third appeal of the parties’ various claims to the Supreme Court. In Hansuld I, the Court concluded that Lariat had an implied easement for access across the Hansulds’ property. On remand from Hansuld II, the district court conducted a bench trial to establish the specific location of Lariat’s implied access easement. The district court applied the law of floating easements to determine the location of Lariat’s implied access easement and accepted one of Lariat’s proposed locations with some modification. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding (1) the district court incorrectly recited the law pertaining to floating easements, but the error did not make a legal difference; and (2) the Hansulds did not demonstrate that the district court’s final decision as to the location of the implied easement was either clearly erroneous or that the court erred as a matter of law.
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