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Facts

• The Plaintiff, as Trustee of the Jose V. Frietze & Vivian R. Frietze Family Trust, claimed that the Defendants interfered with her exclusive easement rights. The dispute centered around the use of an easement, with the Plaintiff alleging that the Defendants' actions constituted an interference with these rights.

Procedural History

• [Not applicable or not found]

Parties' Submissions

• Plaintiff: Argued that the Defendants interfered with her exclusive easement rights and sought to have the easement recognized as exclusive.
• Defendants: [Not applicable or not found]

Legal Issues

• Whether the Plaintiff abandoned the easement.
• Whether the Plaintiff overburdened the easement, exceeding its intended ingress-egress purpose.

Disposition

• The appeal was affirmed, maintaining the district court's judgment that modified the Plaintiff's exclusive easement into a nonexclusive easement shared by the parties (para 4).

Reasons

• Per Ives, J. (Medina and Baca, JJ., concurring): The Court of Appeals affirmed the district court's judgment on the basis that the Plaintiff failed to adequately challenge both determinations made by the district court: that the Plaintiff abandoned the easement and that the easement was overburdened by exceeding its intended purpose. The Plaintiff's failure to contest the overburdening determination on appeal was deemed a structural reason for affirming the district court's judgment. Since appellate courts do not address issues not raised in briefs, the unchallenged conclusion that the Plaintiff overburdened the easement was sufficient to support the judgment. The appellate court's decision was also influenced by the principle that unchallenged findings of fact and conclusions of law on appeal are considered true and controlling (paras 2-3).