Columbia Gas v. Bailey

Citations

• 2023 Ohio 1245

Syllabus

APPROPRIATION OF EASEMENT RIGHTS AGRICULTURAL EASEMENT EVID.R. 408, 702. The petitioner-appellant/cross-appellee is not entitled to the irrebuttable presumption under R.C. 163.09(B)(1)(c) or the rebuttable presumption under 163.09(B)(1)(b). The trial court should have applied the prior public use doctrine to determine whether the specific easement rights sought by the petitioner-appellant/cross-appellee are authorized as a result of the agricultural easement.