Dobie v. Morrison

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that a fee owner cannot use the burdened land in any manner that would interfere with the easement holders’ rights
• affirming the trial court’s decision that the defendants could use the easement “as they had done ‘traditionally and historically’ ”
• observing, on the basis of Thies, that “[t]he intent of the plattors should be determined with reference to the language used in connection with the facts and circumstances existing at the time of the grant”
• “[A] park is not the same as a right of way.”
• allowing use of extrinsic evidence in interpretation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).