Opinion ID: 1766673
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Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Permissible uses of easement

Text: The trial court's omission of the specific uses from the easement description is not error. When an easement is claimed by prescription, the character and extent of it is fixed and determined by the use under which it is gained. Holian v. Guenther, 471 S.W.2d 457, 459 (Mo. 1971). Accordingly, the trial court necessarily defines the acceptable use of an easement by the factual findings that gave rise to the prescription. The Watson family had moved combines, cattle and other farming equipment between their two parcels. This would be the acceptable uses of the easement. If the easement holder thereafter unreasonably exploits the easement beyond those uses, the servient owner may bring suit to enjoin that behavior. Point denied.