December 05, 2012

Court reviews whether a landowner's water line trespassed on adjacent property

LEROY J. HUMPHRIES, ET AL. v. NICOLAS C. MINBIOLE, ET AL. (Tenn. Ct. App. November 9, 2012)

This appeal involves a dispute between adjacent landowners over Defendants’ installation of a private water line within a right-of-way easement across the Plaintiffs’ property. Following a bench trial, the trial court concluded that Defendants’ private water line trespassed on Plaintiffs’ property. Further, the trial court ordered that the Defendants would be incarcerated if they did not remove the water line and return Plaintiffs’ property to its previous condition within thirty (30) days. Defendants appealed. We affirm in part and remand for further proceedings.

Opinion available at:

https://www.tba.org/sites/default/files/humphriesl_110912.pdf