Hanson

FACTS

Plaintiff Norman L. Hanson is the trustee of the Hanson Family Trust dated November 14, 2006. Hanson, as an individual and as trustee, owns 19.68 acres of real property described as Lot 19 of Parcel Map No. 7697 (Lot 19) and located in the Sand Canyon area of Tehachapi. Pine Ridge Road crosses Lot 19 at a distance of more than 300 feet from the lot’s easterly boundary. Hanson states that the road was established as a private easement for the benefit of the parcels comprising Parcel Map No. 7697. Defendant Mesonika Piecuch and defendant Gordon Lull are married and reside in Sand Canyon in a home that is part of a development known as Quail Mountain Trails. Defendants are the sole shareholders of JC Land & Cattle, Inc., a corporation that owns 315 acres of unimproved land in Sand Canyon. The land abuts the easterly boundary of Hanson’s lot. Hanson asserts the corporation’s land is not part of Parcel Map No. 7697

2. and is not benefited by the private easement that allows certain people to cross his property by using Pine Ridge Road. In May 2013, defendants made a written complaint to the County of Kern’s code compliance division based on their belief that an illegal gun…