Opinion ID: 2630648
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Text: ¶ 4 On January 27, 1982, H. Fred Smith, Rowland W. Smith, Minson, and Halander executed a warranty deed on behalf of Western Management, a Partnership, conveying the Love Property to William J. Lowenberg, subject to and together with a right of way over the Arnold Property. The deed was recorded on February 3, 1982, and was abstracted to the Arnold Property in the tract index. At the time of the conveyance, however, title to the Arnold Property was not vested in Western Management. On October 29, 1982, in an attempt to cure that oversight, the four partners who then held title quitclaimed their interest in the Arnold Property to Western Management. This deed was recorded on October 29, 1982, and was abstracted to the Arnold Property.
¶ 5 In May of 1984, Western Management conveyed its interest in the Arnold Property to Smith, Halander, Smith and Associates. The deed made no specific reference to the right-of-way, but warranted against all claiming by through or under with the specific entity left blank. A warranty deed executed by Smith, Halander, Smith and Associates in June of 1984 conveyed the Arnold Property to Kay L. Walker and Lawrence A. McElliot [s]ubject to current general taxes, easements and restrictions. Other transactions, not relevant here, followed until 1990 when title to the property was once again in the four partners.
¶ 6 Three of the partners, H. Fred Smith, Rowland W. Smith, and Halander conveyed their interest in the Arnold Property to Conmart, Inc., Arnold's predecessor in interest, via a quitclaim deed dated November 28, 1990, and recorded on March 8, 1991. Minson apparently retained his interest in the property. In July 1993, Conmart, Inc. and Minson executed a warranty deed conveying their respective interests in the Arnold Property to Arnold Industries, Inc., a Utah corporation. The warranty deed conveying the property to Arnold recites that the conveyance is Subject to: ... Covenants, Conditions, Restrictions, Rights-of-Way, Easements, Leases and Reservations now of Record.

¶ 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.