Opinion ID: 2630648
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Heading: The Love Property Chain of Title

Text: ¶ 7 William J. Lowenberg took title to the Love Property, including the easement over the Arnold Property, through the January 1982 warranty deed as described above.
¶ 8 Early in 1991 or at some time previously, errors were discovered in the legal description of the easement in the January 1982 warranty deed. A dispute also arose regarding compliance of the Lowenberg's property with local restrictive covenants. Consequently, on January 22, 1991, the four partners, acting in the name of Western Management, formerly a general partnership, and in the name of Smith, Halander, Smith and Associates, with both organizations collectively... acting as grantors of their respective interests, executed a corrective warranty deed curing the defects in the January 1982 legal description of the easement and also defining the right-of-way and limiting it to convenient ingress and egress. This deed was recorded January 23, 1991, and was abstracted in the tract index to the Love Property, but not to the Arnold Property.
¶ 9 On January 24, 1991, the district court entered a quiet title decree adjudicating that the Love Property, then owned by Lowenberg, and its buildings were in compliance with all setback requirements in the restrictive covenants governing the property. Exhibit A of the decree repeated the legal description of the easement from the corrective warranty deed. The quiet title decree was recorded on February 21, 1991, and abstracted to the quarter section wherein lie both the Arnold and the Love properties and to the tract index of the Love Property with a reference to the Arnold Property by tax identification number.
¶ 10 Lowenberg conveyed his property together with the easement to William and Irene Love by warranty deed in January 1995.