Weeks v. Wolf Creek Industries, Inc.

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• analyzing the question of whether an increase in traffic by an easement holder overburdens the easement
• noting \the law favor[s] changes and improvements for the benefit of the dominant estate so long as the manifest intent of the parties does not disallow the changes and the burden to the servient tenement is not increased.\
• wherein the servient-estate owner appealed, seeking further limitations on the use of the easement because of alleged overburdening
• “To be sure, if the grant is for the benefit of some particular land it can[]not be used to accommodate some other tract of land adjoining or lying beyond.” (alteration, internal quotation marks, and citation omitted)
• “To be sure, if the grant is for the benefit of some particular land it can[]not be used to accommodate some other tract of land adjoining or lying beyond.” (alteration, internal quotation marks, and citation omitted)
• “[T]he use of the easement by owners of property other than a subdivision of the dominant tenement—even property acquired by the dominant-tenement owner after creation of the servitude—overburdens the servient estate as a matter of law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).