Jerry Brown Farm Ass'n, Inc. v. Kenyon

How courts have described this case

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• affirming that a prescriptive easement existed over a private road by virtue of the claimants’ use of the roadway in the same manner as the true owner
• listing “physical appearance of the claimed easement in relation to the leased property” among relevant circumstantial evidence and citing tenant’s testimony that road, over which easement was claimed, “was the only access he had to the leased parcels”
• the placement of “a saw horse with a sign reading ‘Road Closed’ at the entrance to the road once a year,” when “the saw horse only covered a small portion of the road” and “[vjehicles desiring access would simply go around the sign,” did not constitute substantial interruption
• the placement of “a saw horse with a sign reading ‘Road Closed’ at the entrance to the road once a year,” when “the saw horse only covered a small portion of the road” and “[v]ehicles desiring access would simply go around the sign,” did not constitute substantial interruption
• claims for prescriptive rights are “fact-intensive inquir[ies]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).