Opinion ID: 2630648
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Counter Estoppel

Text: ¶ 20 Arnold further argues that counter estoppel is triggered by the 1984 warranty deed reciting that grantor Western Management Convey[s] and Warrant[s] against all claims by through or under to grantee Smith, Halander, Smith and Associates with no reference to the easement. However, Arnold cannot establish in the grantee the reasonable reliance necessary to counter estoppel because the natural persons constituting Smith, Halander, Smith and Associates were also partners of Western Management. The Smith, Halander, Smith and Associates partners could not and did not assert that they relied on Western Management's conveyance of the property free of easement. They indisputably had notice of the easement that they had granted on behalf of Western Management in the January 1982 warranty deed and that Lowenberg continued to use.