Originally Posted by
Joe Bikerider
Easements come and easements go. My house had an easement along the North side of our property for a street between us and the neighbor. Well the other property changed hands and the new owner started squeezing the boundary. After several years of legal bills he came up with a new version of the deed that “proved” he controlled the easement. It was claimed to be “exclusive” to him. To avoid even more legal bills I have just given up. My example is just to point out that lots of expensive lawyers can change a seemingly simple easement into whatever they want. Good luck.
True - easements go away because they are not enforced - eventually somebody blocks them or moves the boundaries and it becomes unenforceable and therefore no longer valid. Happens a lot with driveways and fences. Hundreds of people every week using this path will be a hard thing to deny.