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(@mlove5648)
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Ran across this in a new survey and Engineer wants to know who owns this in fee

 
Posted : October 4, 2019 12:01 pm
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Me.

 
Posted : October 4, 2019 12:15 pm
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Posted : October 4, 2019 12:28 pm
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Sorry I couldn't get it to load

 
Posted : October 4, 2019 12:29 pm
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The country club.

 
Posted : October 4, 2019 12:34 pm
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Typically if it says right-of-way, it only conveys an easement interest.?ÿ Quick look of Texas case law supports this as well:

TEXAS ELECTRIC RY. CO. et al.
v.
NEALE et al.

No. A-3494.

Supreme Court of Texas.

 
Posted : October 4, 2019 2:07 pm
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The habendum clause calls it an easement.?ÿ There are enough qualifiers in the body of the granting clause to render it an interest less than full fee simple.

 
Posted : October 4, 2019 2:29 pm
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Is this a trick question??ÿ Was there litigation over this??ÿ Did some genius of jurisprudence pull a boner?

 
Posted : October 4, 2019 2:33 pm
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That's a lot of money for easement rights. 111,110 dollars.... Ouch...

In New Jersey, you'd be lucky to get 10k for an easement.

 
Posted : October 4, 2019 2:35 pm
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@steven-metelsky

My mom inherited 60 acres of farmland from her dad up in North Dakota and went on to grant the local power company a perpetual easement on it (roughly an acre I believe) for $37,000.  When she died my siblings and I sold the remaining land to a nearby farmer and he said he wished he knew she was considering it because he thought she got ripped off.  Anyway, $110,000 doesn't seem that unreasonable to me considering it could be a nice chunk of land in a desirable area.

 
Posted : October 4, 2019 3:41 pm
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@steven-metelsky

Hard to judge the value of an easement if you have no idea of its size or the value of the land.

 
Posted : October 4, 2019 5:37 pm
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A Right of Way is a form of easement. Calling something a "right of way easement" is redundant. The Country Club retains the fee title here.

 
Posted : October 5, 2019 10:13 am
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Odd that an easement grant excepts oil and gas.

 
Posted : October 5, 2019 4:36 pm
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@aliquot

Right. I understand that. I was just commenting on the amount in general.

We have multi-million dollar homes here and I've never seen any easement for that amount.

 
Posted : October 6, 2019 5:14 am
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Oh Jear Desus, whaddya mean [potty mouth]??ÿ

bon?úer?ÿ1

?ÿ?ÿ(bƒ?ýn?r)

n.?ÿInformal

A?ÿblunder?ÿor?ÿan?ÿerror.
?ÿ
pull a boner. Make a blunder, as in 'I pulled?ÿan awful?ÿboner when I mentioned his ex-wife. This expression is derived from the noun bonehead, for ƒ??blockheadƒ? or ƒ??stupid person.ƒ? '[ Slang; early 1900s]
 
Posted : October 6, 2019 8:00 am
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@sergeant-schultz

That may be true, but, try to use the shortened form of raccoon.  Eet no work.

 
Posted : October 6, 2019 8:20 am