GIBSON v. BUICE

No. 80-573.

394 So.2d 451 (1981)

Robert M. GIBSON and Martha J. Gibson, His Wife, Appellants, v. Sam D. BUICE and Edna L. Buice, Husband and Wife, and Robert L. Cheezem and Kathleen M. Cheezem, Husband and Wife, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

Rehearing Denied March 4, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gene H. Auvil of McGee & Auvil, P.A., Brooksville, for appellants.

Joseph E. Johnston, Jr., of the Law Offices of Joseph E. Johnston, Jr., Brooksville, for appellees.


FRANK D. UPCHURCH, Jr., Judge.

Appellants appeal from a judgment granting appellees a prescriptive easement over the east twenty feet of land owned by the appellants.

We find that appellees failed to establish their right to the easement and reverse.

To establish an easement by prescription, a claimant must prove actual, continuous and uninterrupted use for the prescribed period of twenty years. Downing v. Bird, 100 So.2d 57...

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