Alston v. Jacox — Prescriptive Easement Over Decades-Old Pathway Upheld Even After Third-Party Permission Grant
The North Carolina Court of Appeals affirmed a prescriptive easement over a rural pathway that had been used for ingress and egress since the 1950s, holding that the required twenty-year period need not immediately precede the dispute and that an easement already vested by adverse use cannot be destroyed by a later permission grant to a third party.