Miller v. Cabrera CA4/2

INTRODUCTION

The parties to this action own property in a rural area of Riverside County. For

several years now, they have been litigating access to a dirt road known as Courtney

Lane. This is the second time the matter has come to this court on appeal.

Courtney Lane and another dirt road known as Estelle Mountain Road run through

property owned by defendants and respondents Jose Cabrera and Brenda Cobb-Cabrera

(collectively the Cabreras). Several of the Cabreras’ neighbors use these roads to access

their own properties. In June 2016, after having brought livestock to their property, the

Cabreras put up a gate blocking Courtney Lane. A few months later, five of the

Cabreras’ neighbors (collectively plaintiffs) filed the current action seeking to quiet title

to prescriptive easements over Courtney Lane and Estelle Mountain Road and for

declaratory relief. The parties later settled their claim as to Estelle Mountain Road. In

our initial nonpublished opinion in this matter, we held the plaintiffs established their

right to a prescriptive easement over Courtney Lane and remanded for the trial court to

hold a further trial on one issue: whether the Cabreras could maintain…