Giordano

Filed 4/13/22 Giordano v. Knuthson-Loomis CA3

NOT TO BE PUBLISHED

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT

(Butte) ----

DAVID R. GIORDANO, as Trustee, etc., et al., C094036

Plaintiffs, Cross-defendants and (Super. Ct. No. 18CV03568) Respondents,

v.

MERLE KNUTHSON-LOOMIS,

Defendant, Cross-complainant and Appellant.

This case involves a real property dispute between two landowners in rural Butte County. Plaintiffs David R. and Elizabeth G. Giordano, as trustees of the D & E Giordano Revocable Family Trust (collectively, plaintiffs), filed an action to quiet title to a prescriptive easement to use a dirt road/trail that traverses defendant Merle Knuthson- Loomis’s (defendant’s) property. Plaintiffs claimed that they had used the road openly, notoriously, adversely, and…