‘Rights-of-way’ easement from 1930s limited to construction of water pipeline, court rules

By Amanda Jerome (October 13, 2022, 1:16 PM EDT) -- An Alberta court has dismissed an application for a declaration confirming that a written easement for a parcel of land next to a farm permits construction and maintenance of an access road for residential purposes, finding that the easement “grants rights-of-way for limited purposes related to a water pipeline that was abandoned” by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company (CPR) long ago....