Stallman v. Newman

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that though Stallmans gave Newman permission to use road, permissive use was inconsistent with Newman’s claim of “legal right to use road”; court held that without vendor/vendee relationship, easement by estoppel cannot arise from passive acquiescence alone
• “[H]ostility can be shown by the adverse possessor’s decision to ‘designedly enclose’ the disputed property by erecting a fence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).