Opinion ID: 1612335
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Heading: dike and drainage district easement

Text: The Odvodys argue that the dike and drainage district easement constitutes a public easement thereby allowing them the use of the lane. The extent of an easement created by such a conveyance is fixed by the conveyance and the meaning thereof is to be found in its language construed in the light of relevant circumstances. Bors v. McGowan, 159 Neb. 790, 68 N.W.2d 596 (1955). The trial court made a finding that nothing in the language of the easement allowed for a public road. However, in this case, the actual dike and drainage district easement is not contained in the record before this court. It is incumbent on the party appealing to present a record which supports the errors assigned, and absent such a record, the decision of the lower court will be affirmed. Durkan v. Vaughan, 259 Neb. 288, 609 N.W.2d 358 (2000).