Lone Jack Ranch v. Perkins CA4/1

INTRODUCTION

This is the second appeal in a dispute between adjacent property owners, Lone

Jack Ranch LP (Lone Jack Ranch) and Virginia Perkins (Virginia) regarding the use of a

road across Lone Jack Ranch for access to Virginia's property.1 Virginia asserts four

contentions in this appeal: (1) the trial court improperly granted Lone Jack Ranch a

directed verdict on her prescriptive easement claims, (2) the jury's finding that an

irrevocable license to use the road may be revoked for failure to comply with reasonable

requests to close and lock gates upon passing through Lone Jack Ranch is not supported

by the law or the facts, (3) the use of gates fails to preserve Virginia's contract rights and

unreasonably restricted her access rights, and (4) the trial court erred in denying her

request for attorney fees on her contract claims. We disagree with each of these

contentions and affirm the judgment.

BACKGROUND

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The parents of Virginia and Steve purchased property known as Perkins Ranch, as

a second home in 1951 when Virginia was 11 years old. The property contained an old

Because Virginia and her brother, Steve Perkins, share a surname, we…