California Court of Appeal

Continuous use of a private road by previous owner of plaintiffs' property since 1982 with express permission, and from at least 1990 to 1995 without permission, constituted adverse, open, and uninterrupted use sufficient to support a prescriptive easement, despite claims that original builder of the road, an oil company, posted signs which precluded the acquisition of prescriptive rights, and use of the road was not adverse.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/15/2006
• Published 03/27/2006

Judges

• MARGULIES, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Law Office of W.G. Watson, Jr., Philip G. Watson, Stephen G. Watson, Eureka, for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Janssen, Malloy, Needham, Morrison, Reinholtsen & Crowley, W. Timothy Needham, Eureka, Caroline O. Musolff, for Respondents.