Source: MORNING AG CLIPS, 8/7/19

 A recent North Carolina Court of Appeals decision provides some clarity to when a landowner may install a gate on a path that serves as an easement through several properties. The case from Alamance County, Taylor v. Hiatt, No. COA18-864 (June 4, 2019), looked to the language of the recorded easement (conveyed by deed) to determine whether the owner of the servient estate (the land over which an easement runs) may erect a gate.

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