Topic: the burden is on the party claiming a prescriptive easement… · Go Syfert
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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 8 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Mulcahy v. Verhines.

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1 Mulcahy v. Verhines Anchor
michctapp · 2007
green “the burden is on the party claiming a prescriptive easement to show by satisfactory proof that the use of the defendant's property was of such a character and continued for such a length of time that it ripened into a prescriptive easement.” 5
2 West Michigan Dock & Market Corp. v. Lakeland Investments
michctapp · 1995
green “permissive use of property, regardless of the length of the use, will not result in an easement by prescription.” 3

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