Pyle v. Gall
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The Supreme Court reversed the decision of a panel of the court of appeals reversing the district court's determination that a prescriptive easement existed over land owned by the Galls, holding that the panel erred in finding that the Pyles' use was not exclusive because the Pyles did not exclude all others from the asserted easement.
The Pyles filed petition seeking to quiet title to a disputed boundary land in this case. The district court found that the Pyles acquired the land by adverse possession and acquired a prescriptive easement across the northern sixty feet of the Galls' land. The court of appeals affirmed the court's adverse possession findings but reversed the finding of a prescriptive easement, concluding that the evidence did not show that the Pyles exclusively used the northern boundary of the Galls' land. The Supreme Court reversed as to the issue subject to review, holding that the element of exclusivity was established in this case in the context of a prescriptive easement.
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