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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk152164395"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Greetings list mates.<o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk152164395"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I would greatly appreciate any suggestions, ideas, case references, a phone chat… regarding the following:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk152164395"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Background</span></u></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk152164395"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">:
late 1800s easement for railroad tracks along lake; property (and easement) transferred to logging company; property later transferred to developer who subdivided; lots sold and homes built; easement in question described as for “access” and connects about
a dozen homes to the lakefront where there was a dock. For 10-15+ years, owners of benefitted properties used the easement for access to the lake, parking while using the lake, storing small boats and other personal recreational equipment, and general hanging
out in the lakefront portion of the easement. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk152164395"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Issue</span></u></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk152164395"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">: Caselaw
that references changed use of an access easement seems to focus on changes to modes of transportation over time—from, e.g., trains, to motorized vehicles. But no luck so far finding anything where, e.g., actual use of the access easement includes parking,
storage, and recreation; and whether/how the legal right to continue of those related uses might be acquired.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk152164395"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Can the benefitted properties acquire, by prescriptive easement or under another legal theory, a legal right to use the easement area
for those additional uses where they have engaged in those uses for 10+ years---does it make a difference if they already have a legal right to use the easement, but for access only?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk152164395"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Can you think of another way or theory?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk152164395"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Again, I’d greatly appreciate any insight you might have, or even a shove in the right direction!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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