I agree with the concept of bringing value to the Client and not just collecting a fee. We always have attorneys for the latter.
An Easement Is Not A Road
No one but the original fee title owner has any rights greater than access.
The underlying fee can be sold to anyone or all, and the mineral rights can be held or sold separately.
Paul in PA
Together with and easement described as follows?
Do each of these 25 parcels contain a statement like that?
Sounds to me like the original owner (your client) has been paying the taxes on that easement all these years and he has only found two suckers to relieve him so far. Every little bit helps. If I owned one of those 25 parcels I certainly wouldn't be interested in bailing him out of the mess he created with my money, but if he wanted to Q/C the easement to me along my frontage I would take it.
Together with and easement described as follows?
That is the situation. The mineral rights are one of the main considerations here.
Road Easements, Public and Private
> No one but the original fee title owner has any rights greater than access.
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> The underlying fee can be sold to anyone or all, and the mineral rights can be held or sold separately.
I assume that you are posting only about private roads in the state where you practice. The case is completely different in Texas as the court held in Cantley v. Gulf Production Company and is probably the same elsewhere given that the same rationale would apply as that given by the Texas court.