Oakes v. Hattabaugh

How courts have described this case

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• noting that a valid easement must establish “with reasonable certainty the easement created and the dominant and servient tenements”
• finding prejudice where a family built a home and purchased additional land in reliance on another’s implied acquiescence to the family’s violation of restrictive covenants
• no easement created where deed identified location of easement and servient estate but failed to identify dominant estate
• “An 28 No. 39974-5-III City Heights Holdings v. Hunter instrument creating an express easement should describe with reasonable certainty the easement created and the dominant and servient tenements.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).