Crites v. Koch

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• allowing the true owners to use the property as a shortcut and to park is a “neighborly courtesy” expected of an owner
• the test of adverse use is whether the party claiming adverse possession exercised dominion over the land as a true owner would
• where the parties agreed that it was common for farmers to cross and to park equipment on their neighbors' fields and that use was recognized as neighborly courtesy suggested the use of a neighbor's property for this purpose was not adverse for purposes of a prescriptive easement
• where the parties agreed that it was common for farmers to cross and to park equipment on their neighbors’ fields and that use was recognized as neighborly courtesy suggested the use of a neighbor’s property for this purpose was not adverse for purposes of a prescriptive easement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).