Opinion ID: 2257649
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: Third-Party Invitee Use

Text: Respondent also points to the use of the farm lane by his third-party invitees as indicative of adverse use. A large part of the testimony at trial showed that the farm lane was used by farm laborers, timber and power companies and hunters for ingress and egress to respondent's 127-acre parcel. It was generally evident that these third-party invitees did not receive permission to use the farm lane from the owners (respondent's parents) of what is now the Banks' property, but from the respondent himself. The use of the farm lane by the third-party invitees in the case sub judice, however, was consistent with how respondent himself had always used the farm lane. As discussed supra, there was no change in circumstances as to how respondent used the farm lane from the time that he impliedly had his parents' permission. The use of the farm lane by respondent's third-party invitees was consistent with his permitted use. Therefore, such use by the third-party invitees does not constitute an adverse use that would entitle respondent to assert a prescriptive easement.