Wheadon v. Pearson
Decision Date | 13 December 1962 |
Docket Number | No. 9696,9696 |
Parties | d 45 Gene WHEADON and Deane Wheadon, his wife, Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. George B. PEARSON and Sarah K. Pearson, his wife, Defendants and Respondents. |
Court | Utah Supreme Court |
Bean & Bean, Layton, for appellants.
Nielsen, Conder & Hansen, Salt Lake City, for respondents.
In a prior action plaintiffs sought to establish a right of way over the adjoining land of the defendants upon the theory of a prescriptive easement--that plaintiffs and their predecessors had adversely used the alleged right of way for a continuous period in excess of 20 years. Defendants' motion for summary judgment was granted at the pretrial hearing when it was determined that the claimed period of adverse use did not amount to 20 years because for a five year period the adjoining parcels of land had been under the common ownership of the plaintiffs. 1 A motion for a new trial was denied. No appeal was taken from this judgment.
Subsequently, plaintiffs filed the action now under consideration, alleging a right of way by way of an implied easement over the same strip of defendants' property--that the right of way was created by the division of a parcel of land into two contiguous parcels, a portion of one being used during the single ownership as a right of way for the benefit of the other. 2 The complaint was dismissed for the reason that the prior action was res judicata. Plaintiffs appeal from this ruling.
Both sides to this controversy cite and rely upon East Mill Creek Water Co. v. Salt Lake City. 3 In that case Mr. Justice Wade stated:
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