Court Opinion

ID: 9645039
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 21:11:13.926467+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:11:22.326820
License: Public Domain

Douglas, J.,
dissenting in part only: Plaintiff contends that the court based its decision that no easement existed over the defendants’ land primarily upon the fact that the claimed easement crosses onto the land of a third party. The fact that the plaintiff may have to cross the land of a third person with that person’s permission should not per se preclude him from claiming a right-of-way by necessity. Bains v. Parker, 143 Tex. 57, 61-62, 182 S.W.2d 397, 399 (1944). The trial court’s opinion leads me to question whether it relied on that fact as a basis for its decision. If it did, then it erred. I would remand for clarification.