Permissive use can never become prescriptive easement

The Twelfth District has recently re-affirmed the long-standing principle that “a party’s permissive use of land cannot ripen into an easement by prescription, no matter how long it may be continued.”

The case is McCumbers v. Puckett, 2009-Ohio-4465 [PDF].

This post was written by Jeffrey M. Nye.

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