Ericsson v. Braukman

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• holding that the dominant tenant is entitled to use the land in any way he or she wants as long as the use does not unreasonably interfere with ingress or egress
• servient owner may place gate across easement if doing so is necessary to the servient owner’s reasonable use of the property
• Servient estate, a Christmas tree farm, was permitted to maintain locked gate from November 1 to December 25 as trees were most apt to be stolen during that period.
• the owner of a servient estate may erect a gate across the easement if the reasonable use of the easement makes a gate — even a locked gate — necessary, for example to keep out trespassers
• an express easement was relocated from one road to another, where the easement holder graded and graveled the latter road, and the servi- ent estate knew of the improvements but did not protest
• an express easement was relocated from one road to another, where the easement holder graded and graveled the latter road, and the servi- ent estate knew of the improvements but did not protest

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).