@@paulskopic5844 if there was an actual easement in the deed then the guy deserved access - if not its on him- you apparently think you know thinks but I doubt it
@@bikeman1x11in areas like this you have easements written into your deed that gives access to farmers ranchers to travel across your property to reach another portion of theirs.
I grew up on a farm in the Upper Midwest. I can’t fathom the depths of pettiness it takes to block an access road. Back in the 70s 80s when I was growing up, this kind of nonsense would not get to court-the doctor’s office, maybe.
@@user-qo8xp3ok9x I can assure you that when he bought the property he was made well aware of the easement rights of others.... I was involved with some property with easement rights... Were you ever?? Probably not living in your momma's basement....
The villain of this story is Goodson, who has a farm store. If his kind petty behavior offends you, you could always make a point of not patronizing his store or buying his produce.
Sounds exactly what I had in mind. I can not come up with a reason why u would wanna get into something with ur neighbor when living out there in the middle of nowhere. U might need eachothet
The smug look on that guy's face. Piece of work right there. It's not like easements and the surrounding laws haven't been around for centuries. I hope he keeps it up though and they sue for major damages.
Unless the other farmers are destroying the easement by their traffic, what possible harm are they causing? The easement is fenced on both sides, so they are not intruding onto his crops. This is just another example of how a person pruchases a piece of rural property and suddenly decides not to abide by decades long legal decisions made in all likelihood before he was born. *Human spite lies at the root of 99.999% of these types of disputes.*
@@workingcountry1776 You live in fantasy land. Most of the so called moral christian people would stab you in the back if they knew they would get away with it. The most immoral people I've ever met in my life went to church every Sunday, and were thought to be moral people right up until they were caught.
Looking at those lots I have a feeling that rick s lot was actually three lots then over time he bought them then when he bought the one on the other side he decided it was now his road. and if they cant get there then sorry to bad want to sell yours to me dirt cheap no one else will buy it?
We had a neighbor block are easement years ago the road had been there since 1898. We had to go to court to make a long story short he lost. The judge granted us a 30 ft. easement on his southeast side it went right in front of his porch. Yes, we put it in the road he was so mad he packed up and left he hasn't been back in 30 years.
I know a man who bought a property that had a legal easement running through it for other family to access their land. It was all explained in the legal descriptions of their deeds and on the new property owner's deed. He tried to block access to the easement because he thought when he bought the land that bought up the easement, too. He actually found a lawyer to take his case, but he lost in court. He didn't buy an easement... he bought a property that had an easement. If he didn't like them using the legal easement, he would need to sell the property. The judge told him that he was either very ill informed on what a legal easement actually meant or he was very dumb to think that his neighbors legal right to access their property ended when he bought the property with an easment from the previous owner. The judge even made him pay restitution to the neighbors he illegally blocked from entering their own property. I don't know how much he had to pay, but he lost a lot more than just what he thought became his private driveway. The lawyer tried to argue that the easement became his private property because he owned the majority of road frontage. The judge said NO.
Easements/rights of way have existed for centuries. In Europe and the UK there are rights of way that are, indeed 500+ years old and still in use today.
He was correct in assuming he owned the easement, what he failed to understand was it was a legal easement and that he didn’t control it and could not block it without facing legal consequences. The best thing that could happen is for the owner of the easement to purchase the property the easement provides access to and dissolve the easement, or donate the easement to the county and let them maintain it as a county road.
You don't own an easement ever that's why it's put on your land map and title so your aware of it not to say you own You must be a GOP voter they are usually that ignorant it what planet were you born on
Goodson has no case. The easement has been used by all 3 properties since the 1960s, that's basically grandfathered joint ownership to all 3 properties.
@@deanwilliams8857 I would dispute your assessment of Goodson as everyone's AHOLE actually serves a purpose. People like Goodson don't and it is a shame government prevents people from dealing with people like Goodson.
You get that doing so incurs more legal fees for you in the meantime though, right? I think they’re pretty much over being in court and shelling out cash to attorneys for frivolous litigation. That would be throwing good money after bad in hopes to get *some* back. And I’m saying that as an attorney for the last 25 years
Under FL. Because he lost, he automatically becomes responsible for all his and the other people's legal fees his legal fees and all the court cost. On top of that with this judges rulling makes it hard for him to win any other cases pending. So if his lawyer has any brains he tell him to shut up drop the other cases and sell your property to pay all the fines and legal cost and move!
@@Cowboy_up429 Wish that applied in NY! You can be sued for just about anything and even if you win, you cannot recover legal fees. Had a scum of the earth roofer who failed to nail 3 full rows of shingles and the rows of shingles were not even straight. He sued me for refusing to pay, and I won easily but still had to pay for my lawyer. America's most dishonest and despicable professionals, lawyers, lawyer/politicians, lawyer/justices.
I'm a farmer and I can see no reason for this ridiculous situation. Easements here are legallly written into your deed. Just like the pipeline and electric and cell tower companies have the right to access their equipment on your land if they have an easement, you can't stop the hydro crew from fixing the wires. If a laneway has been in use for over 50 years like this, and is an essential access point for livestock, what normal sane farmer would block a neighbouring farmer? Where I come from farm folks don't do that to each other.... We are all in this sinking ship together, so let's all row and bail the boat together and maybe we can survive. On another note, around here, there are "unopened road allowances" that were surveyed out way back when they were doing the original parceling out on behalf of the Crown. These are still owned by the crown, or municipality nowadays, and as such remain as public property unless they have been sold to the adjacent landowner. Public throughfares are just that, even if not in use. Landowners can claim ownership all they like but those little strips of land are not theirs unless they have paperwork to prove it. Anybody has the right to traverse Crown land or public land for a legitimate purpose. Especially if has been an established custom for half a century...
Here in the UK we frequently have new landowners attempt to close ancient footpaths and trackways. Forget an "established custom for half a century", we have landowners attempting to close rights of way that date back _millenia!_ Fortunately, we have a very hard-nosed Ramblers Association which regularly walks these ancient tracks, especially to keep them open, and judges who won't overturn rights that date back to before the Norman Conquest. It doesn't stop the rich and selfish from trying, though.
Farmers here in our part of Tennessee help each other out. I’ve seen many instances during harvest where other farmers would drive their equipment over (no small feat) to neighboring farms and pitch in as if it were their own farm. In the past two years we’ve personally had equipment failures at critical harvest times with severe weather inbound. Another farmer let us borrow his tractor and baler. We are talking about seriously expensive equipment entrusted to us with a nod. Small town ways . . .
Lawyer won't call back because he knows he was wrong, he was just doing it for the money, GREED! It's this type of lawyer that gives lawyer some bad name.
Thank you for letting us know...I watched from the first time it aired and it was totally unsensible of the Badmen Farm Brothers to block access to the other farms...Shows the level of insanity, running amuck in that family...If that idiot were my brother, I would be the first one against him in court....Representing the honor of my family....How could he dishonor the family in that fashion, an the other family members let him get away with it, baffles the mind of any sane person...Blessings to all the victims and the journalists....
A farmer, by his existential nature, should know all about easements and other property rights. Goodson isn't ignorant of the law; he's acting purposefully stupid. Is he really a farmer (or did his daddy die and leave him the land)?
Daddy sold these properties with the easement. Remaining Goodson farm went to the sons. It is a true farm. Raises strawberries, I think. The aerial shot shows his fields. He wanted the land back and offered to buy back. Then did this as way to force them to sell cheap.
going to guess it was 3 lots and when he bought the one on the other side bet he decided on his own its his road then planned to make them sell their land lock lots for cheap. He might be that stupid if he saw it on TV once
An easement that is deeded across another property isn't something that can be blocked if in regular use. In my state, even an unrecorded easement is difficult to block if it is in regular use. I faced a similar problem, and negotiated a successful outcome with a few $s and a new fence. I couldn't be blocked out, but it would hamper any future sale that would affect my children. I'm glad SOMEONE in the Media is looking out for people. Kudos, y'all!👍👍
I bought my first house in the high desert of southern california. The previous owner had been an employee of my new neighbor. One day he stopped me and announced he was moving our common fence 10' onto my property. I asked him why and he said he measured from his house to the fence, and it didn't match what his house plans said. I said that property lines are established by surveys, not measurements to structures and that if he moved our fence, he would be forced to resurvey and move all the fences in the neighborhood as the recorded property descriptions and lines would no longer be accurate. He huffed and stormed off. He tried again by hiring a contractor to build a wall. When I told the contractor about this man's efforts he quit. I guess the guy was used to bullying his employee. As they say is "what makes good neighbors is high walls"!
Blocking the legal easement was nothing more than an attempt at a greedy land grab. He thought he would be able to buy their property dirt cheap if he made it hard for them to access it. How did that work out for him? 😂😂😂😂😂
Also you can not block a person that is land locked. Easements are a normal part of issues like this. Both men should be reimbursed also for any losses caused by the blocking. There are laws to protect people that are landlocked.
I’m fighting now to get to my firebreak road to be able to maintain it. I do Not have a legal Easement, but the previous owner and I had a verbal agreement that he would mow my firebreak road and I had permission to keep the sides cut away so that if our area started to burn, the firefighters would have a road. This was an exchange so that the former owner could have access to an area of my land to park his tractor, pickup, firewood, etc on a small portion of my land. The new owner, who is a Wenatchee Police Officer is refusing me to cross less than 75 feet of his land to get to my firebreak road, yet he’s still using MY LAND. Thank you Wenatchee Police Department for having a crooked Cop.
That mans a lot more professional than I would have been . All I see there is a bunch of rubbish my tractor could move . Glad for everyone involved He's a patient man ....
My cousin had a similar problem years ago. New owner of the land on which their was an existing easement to his home at that time, plus about a dozen others, decided to close the road off (which my cousin and his neighborhood maintained) because "ain't no right-of-way on my deed!" In my neck of the woods, right-of-ways don't pop up in title searches and sometimes you have to go back quite a few years to find the original recording of the easement if it becomes a problem later on. Usually the original deed will have language something like "heirs and assignee's in perpetuity" (succeeding property owners are stuck honoring it forever) to apply to easements. My cousin's lawyer had to go back to the late 50's to find it. During preliminaries the judge informed new owner "right-of-ways are sacred in this county" and he decided to not pursue the matter. The new owner was a really arrogant, retired, corporate big shot from out of state and I always thought he was trying to pull a land grab on the country hicks!
I am not from your area, but love watching these kinds of stories. I am So very happy that you stayed on top of it! Community working together for the better result! ❤
Goodson is completely wrong in what he did, but what I'd like to know is, WHY did he react irrationally, as well as morally in the wrong way, simply, WHY did he do it? I guess he didn't know how to be a tolerant and good neighbor!
So glad they won their cases! It really bugs me when something is always been there. It’s in paper in writing, and some newbie comes in and wants to blow the whole system up! Especially when it comes to farmers!
Anyone that buys property needs to make the effort to actually learn the laws. Easements are legal and you can't unilaterally cancel one. The one I see more often in the city is people that decide they can block the sidewalk in front of their property when it is either owned by the local government or explicitly a permanent easement and/or right of way (laws differ). In some places, the owner facing the sidewalk can be required to maintain it, including shoveling snow and keeping the vegetation down; in other places the local government handles that maintenance themselves and you can actually get in trouble for cutting bushes, trees or plants within that easement. This is not a big deal to most people but it is a good thing to know your rights and responsibilities before you end up with a problem.
It is a legal document, like a deed. When you give someone an easement across your land, you are in effect giving them that strip of land. If you buy a landlocked parcel of ground, no one is required to give you an easement to it. People need to do their homework before they buy a piece of ground.
@@MrTruckerfdepends on the state. several States passed a law it's illegal for you to block off the only Access road to someone's property . No registering required
In the 90s I was looking at a very cheap piece of land unheard of in Santa Barbara that had the same problem. EASEMENT blocked by...Davy Crocket, Fess Parker. He had bought out all the land owners surrounding this piece of land then blocked the easement.
They ought to award ownership of the easement to the farmers who were cut off. It was just petty greed & power for that guy to cause so much strife over his arrogance & ignorance. PS. We live rural, surrounded by acreage & our neighbors allow us to use their hayfield's, (second driveway), entrance for 10 feet along the treeline so we can access our property. If they didn't do that, we'd have to drive vertically up the side of a steep hill. In return, (all this is unofficial), we share our tornado shelter with them. It takes zero effort to not be a large flaccid reproductive organ when dealing with others. Trying to starve their cows is even a lower form of low. I'm glad the plaintiffs won their case.
So these two farmers are talking over the fence. One says, "Yep. When a pig gets up to 400 pounds it's a hog." The other one says, "So what does that make your wife?
My 80ish grandmother and grandfather owned a house on a major river. A long driveway connected the river property to the highway. The driveway was created in the late 1940s. All was well until a developer wanted to build houses. He told my grandparents the driveway would be eliminated once the building began. Long story short, after court battle, a judge ruled the developer could not block the driveway since my grandparents has an established right to use it. The developer worked out a deal with my grandparents. When they died, which happened in less than two years, he had the right to buy their property. The developer put off building until he had all the land. The money for the property was divided between the three siblings.
Goodson Farms - don't buy their strawberries and on the off chance he might sell to a packager, boycott Florida strawberries, since he's such a jerk. i looked at land once that had an access road and not a legal easement that guarantees you a right to access your property. The people who had the land the road went through wouldn't talk to me about it so I said no thanks. They wanted that parcel of land but they didn't want to pay for it. They just wanted heirs to just sign it over or quit paying the tax on it and get it that way. he probably wants the land cheap.
The road may not be registered because many states have a law stating they cannot block access road to your property . States that have the slaw all you have to do is call the cops make sure you have a copy of the law in hand . they will remove it for you one way or another
Glad this ended this way. Yet I have heard this happening in NM also .... additionally, it happened in CO or WY or MO also only it was the BLM (or another gov't agency) who blocked the road - I would like to know the outcome of that one .... In OK, back when I studied RE, there was no such thing as 'landlocked' property - all property had easements of egress and ingress - dominant and subdominant properties and had to be a set width (for standard mechanical farming implements)
I always believed the farming community were open to each other and to help one another. I knew a family who were farmers and they were kind folk who always stepped up to help. It's sad to see one farmer being driven to petty stuff like this.
Dude knew that easement was there when he bought the property. His act of blocking that decades old easement should be criminal in nature and he should be held criminally liable. goodson (lower case to show my disrespect for him) is a problem and the land owners around him need to fix that problem.
