Opinion ID: 1905125
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: The 1964 Declarations

Text: On August 4, 1964, the Rogers, Landover Gardens and SDN entered into an Agreement reciting that the parties reserved certain easements, across the land conveyed to [Landover and SDN] ... for the purpose of providing ingress and egress to and from Landover Road, and that Landover and SDN also agreed to provide certain roadways, etc., all as more particularly set forth in [the] Deeds (hereinafter the Driveway Agreement). The Agreement was filed among the land records for Prince George's County and provided, in pertinent part: WHEREAS, the parties hereto desire to clarify their previous understanding regarding the means of ingress and egress to the roadway connecting to Landover Road.    [Landover and SDN give the Rogers] the right to install two (2) twenty-two (22) foot wide driveways at a point or points to be selected by [the Rogers] along [the easterly border of the Rogers Property] to connect to the roadway to be constructed by [Landover and SDN] to provide ingress and egress to and from Landover Road....    [Landover and SDN] agree to provide [the Rogers] with a temporary access to connect to the [existing road while the sewer facilities were being constructed] and do further agree to restore and maintain said existing road after said sewer facilities are installed so that it is passable by passenger vehicles at all times until such time as said roadways is replaced by a permanent means of ingress and egress to and from Landover Road and [the Rogers Property]. Approximately two weeks later, on August 20, 1964, SDN, the Rogers, and various trustees representing secured interests, entered into a Declaration of Easement for the Purposes of Ingress and Egress and for Water and Sanitary Sewer (hereinafter the 1964 Declaration), which provided, in pertinent part: NOW THEREFORE, [SDN] with the consent of the other parties hereto does establish and create a perpetual easement and right of way for ingress and egress for pedestrian and vehicular traffic over the following described property for the common use of the owners, lessees and occupants of all improvements constructed or to be constructed on the aforesaid Parcel A: [a metes and bounds description of the easement].    [SDN] with the consent of the other parties hereto, does also hereby establish and create a perpetual easement and right of way for the installation and maintenance of water and sanitary sewer lines for the purposes aforesaid within the strips of property hereinafter described. [A metes and bounds description of the water line and sanitary sewer easements]    This agreement is intended to create perpetual easements to run with the land and shall bind the parties hereto, their successors and assigns and inure to the benefit of all parties hereto as well as those claiming by, through, or under them. It is undisputed that the metes and bounds descriptions in the 1964 Declaration established three easements for roads, which were connected to Landover Road, but none of which connected to the Rogers property. Part A of the metes and bounds descriptions created an easement for Mathias Road, which travels in a straight line west from Landover Road to a point near the southeastern corner of the Rogers property; the road passes the southern border of the Rogers property and was set to lie 200 feet away from the Rogers southern border. Part B created Loop Road traveling west from Landover Road and after crossing Landover Gardens property into SDN property, curving right and to the south to meet Mathias Road. Part C created a short Stub Road, arising in the northwestern side of Loop Road and traveling west and parallel-to Mathias Road; it stopped well short of the Rogers tract's eastern border. The trial judge found that each of these roads was, in fact, established according to their metes and bounds description. [7]