Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Indiana

Easement through property.

Thank you for taking the time to read and hopefully respond to my easement question. I have recently purchased 20 acres of land in Indiana that was considered landlocked and was given a proper easement to said land for ingress and egress and utilities. The problem we have run into after residing here for 1 year is there is no signage or notification of where our easement begins off of a private drive. We have continuous unwanted traffic as well as a very difficult time describing our location to incoming guests, deliveries etc...

So here is my question:

Am I allowed to put signage (my family name, private drive, no trespassing, etc...) at the beginning of our easement to recognize what the easements intent is and to deter unwanted traffic? The owner of the land has forbade us to place any signage on their property (our easement) at this time.


Asked on 3/22/07, 6:16 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Mark Voigtmann Baker & Daniels

Re: Easement through property.

This is an interesting question. Unfortunately, I cannot (immediately at least) give you a satisfactory answer. The reason is that this strikes me (as do a lot of situations affecting legal rights) as a matter that would require a bit more delving into the facts and the law before knowing the answer. Among other things, we would need to know the exact wording of the easement document, the history of the parcels in question, and we would also need to conduct a bit of "legal research" about what courts have said about such situations in the past. The good news is that I do not immediately think you are without ANY rights here. If you would like to discuss this further, please contact me at [email protected]. My ability to assist further will depend on our running a conflict check to make sure we do not do legal work for the other landowner. Thanks for writing.

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Answered on 3/22/07, 9:21 am


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