Court Opinion

ID: 9648100
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 14:02:14.365333+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:11:56.218566
License: Public Domain

Tom Glaze, Justice, concurring in part, dissenting in part. The majority opinion correctly holds that authorized rural mailboxes, as part of the federal postal system, serve a public purpose and may be maintained within the right-of-way of a street. I also agree that the location of Ms. Lawson’s mailbox in the right-of-way must be a reasonable one. However, because this review is de novo, I would decide and mercifully end this case, and based upon the record before us, would order the Lawson mailbox to be placed at the northeast corner of Ms. Sipple’s lot where other mailboxes are located. In my view, the “floating easement” law is inapplicable to the facts here and unnecessarily complicates the analysis of the case.