@@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.
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.
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....
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.
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.
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.
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 . . .
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
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....
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.
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!👍👍
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.
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 ....
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! ❤
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"!
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!
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!
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.
@@wolfganghb I can’t do that because sometimes I’m wheelchair bound and need the upper driveway to have access to my wheelchair ramp into our back door. It’s a catch 22.
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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?
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.
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)
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.
I own a piece of property I wish I could block the access across. I let a neighbor run a water line along a private drive I own. Later they gave me an unbelievable amount of trouble over the water line. They even called the sheriff on me because one of my renters on the private road cut off their water by mistake. I never even tried to revoke their usage even tho they were given no written access. In my state, if you allow someone use of your land for free they may be able to claim it! Strangle enough if I had had a contract drawn up and charged them even $1.00 a year rental, I could have revoked their lease.
Of course this easement should be honored. If it isn't already it should be illegal to buy or sale landlocked property without a deeded easement. Plus, I'm assuming they've been taking care of this easement since they've been using it for fifty years, and I think there's a law about taking ownership of property you've maintained for a certain amount of time. The guy looked like a jackass!
The guy that blocked the road and prevented the cows from being fed should have been charged with cruelty to animals.
why- dont buy land you dont have clear access to
@@bikeman1x11 An easement provides LEGAL clear access. You apparently do not know much about land ownership.
@@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
@@bikeman1x11 1:23 what part of “this LEGAL easement was included in their deeds …” hard to understand?
@@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.
And that's how you destroy your family name.
He could not have a good name to start with .Do any such as at.
Destroyed.
I hope his strawberry farm goes out of business
You really think he cares?
@@sqd37llooked it up and says temporarily closed
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.
I'm sure it's been said often, there's no real good in Goodson.
Run that bastard out of business
I'm offended by so many people that I've boycotted most of the planet. No where to go anymore so I stay in my man cave.
agree, a total boycott
Fall fires sure have a messy way of settling disputes. Just saying. No, I'm kidding(big brother). This was atrocious behavior, though.
Who in the hell cuts off access to someone’s property to take care of their cows? Undamn believable
It happens a lot. Watch some of these property line battle and you see what some people will go to to just find out there was wrong.
to force the other person out and buy their land cheap....and he's an azz whole....
They just want to be ass holes .Pure and simple.
property rights has always been a big issue........ water rights will blow your mind
who buys landlocked property wiothout free and clear access?
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.
I agree
He wanted to buy it at no costs. Who you going to sell to if it's blocked in
Out of state transplant
@@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....
More like the corners office problem solved
The guy blocking the other guy access, was clearly trying to starve out the other farmer and force him to sell his land for cheap...
That kind of evil "will" come back to bite him in the a$$! AVOIDING ALL GOODSON PRODUCTS GOING FORWARD!!
That wouldn't surprise me at all.
I did not think of this? how devious
@@lisac.2438Goodson Ptoducts ? Please share details
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
How unbelievably childish… I’m glad justice was finally done….
Should sue for 5 million.
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.
Childish, no, devilish, yes;
Ricky Goodsen is alive so justice is still outstanding
Dude gets a hard on from starting problems
I would Boycott Goodsons Farms.
Wonder if he sales in texas?
He would just apply for government subsidies and he would be fine.
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.*
These ppl landlock them so they can try to acquire the remaining property through some delusional invention of adverse possession.
They were probably hoping to buy the land at a really cheap price.
@@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?
he was trying to force them to sell its a common tactic
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.
Glad to hear your story had a happy ending!
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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.
That story just made my day. Thanks for sharing.
The bar association should review that lawyer for sheer incompetence.
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.
More importantly, it's a legal requirement in the deed for his farm. He knew better and still did it. Crazy.
Goodson is just an AHOLE. The judge should have made him pay the lawyer’s fees of the other two farmers.
No, it’s not joint ownership. They just have right of access.
@@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.
Sadly, some people are still defending him.
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...
The guy obviously has a few loose screws rattling around in his brain. Probably doesn't want to have anyone knowing he's growing pot .
Thanks for the information. Good to know. I knew about easements, but didn't know much.
I think there's more to this story than the simple argument over the easement.
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.
how much you want to bet, the man that caused the problem, wasn't from the country
Id sue him for legal fees
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!
@@fashiondiva6972he shouldn’t done something illegal and force those people to get lawyers
@@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.
And pain and sufering 10 mill big ones.
This brings petty to a whole new level. Yay to the farmer and the cows! ❤
Dude owns a business and thought this would work for him I’d bet my paycheck no one in that area does business with him at all
Hopefully.
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 . . .
That's REAL America. And that made me smile. Keep being awesome.
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
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....
The consequences of in-breeding
@@paullake1114 no greed
Are you Asian? We don't have that family honor nonsense over here. Everyone's responsible for their own actions.
those disgusting/petty guys who blocked access to feed animals deserves some real street justice as well.
Makes it even worse that apparently they own a feed store and actually have farmers as their customers. I hope they get boycotted.
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.
Given lawyers are simply America's most dishonest and despicable professionals, it is no wonder he did not respond.
Are there any lawyers with good names?
I call lawyers "verbal prostitutes". Pay them enough money and they'll argue anything you ask them too, no matter how disgusting or low.
@@bukka6697 I don't know if I'd insult prostitutes by associating them with lawyers.
S.O.P. for lawyers $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
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!👍👍
What a selfish ***hole. Hope he loses that land entirely. Those neighbors don't need that.
Thank you for the update. I hope that this settles the matter.
I’ll be boycotting Goodson farms
What do they produce?
@@gritskennedy5007 strawberries
Strawberries?! If he was smart he should have made a deal with the cattle guy to get the cow dung as fertilizer for his fields. What an idiot.
Good. He needs to get a permanent restraining order.
Its call a 12 gage around heer.
Ones that have bars across their windows
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? 😂😂😂😂😂
In Tennessee there are standing statutes that prohibit any person from blocking or land locking the property of another.
Thank you for helping him.
What a horrible thing to do to your neighbors.
A real news story. Thank You.
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 glad that you won your law suit...
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 ....
Yep, I’d go move all that crap out of the way
Nice to see an update on a story like this. You see so many of these videos and there is never a conclusion/resolution follow up.
Unique combination of stupidity and selfishness in astronomical proportions. I hope Karma treats him appropriately.
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! ❤
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"!
Some people are just mean!
You are too kind.Even calling it an asshole move is being lenient.
From Australia … Good on ya mate! 👵🏻🇦🇺🐨🦘
As a veterinarian this is unconscionable. Animal abuse. Settle in court. Don't put the animals in the middle of it. They can't help it.
I remember this case. It’s so good to hear that it was settled so the two men can now get to their farmland & to the pasture land.
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!
Usually the loser has to pay the attorney cost of the others.
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!
I think it was a power play. He wanted to block access and force the sale of the inaccessible land to him.
Uh, he wants the land cheap. Land you can't get to is useless.
Maybe he was just a plain jerk. They are out there.
They should have driven around the blockage
@@arribaficationwineho32 Then they would have been trespassing once off the recorded easement.
My neighbor would have been fed to the hogs if he did that crap
There's other farmers going through it too I'm glad it's much better
I remember this from last year. So glad two of the have won.
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's the case fence that land off.
@@jimmieburleigh9549 If I fence off the land then he won’t give me permission to cross 6’ of his property to get to my upper driveway
@@Doc1855 fence it off and use your lower driveway
@@wolfganghb I can’t do that because sometimes I’m wheelchair bound and need the upper driveway to have access to my wheelchair ramp into our back door.
It’s a catch 22.
Thank you for this update
It baffles me how some people's moral compass lacks empathy. It is pettiness at its best, ridiculous, to the point that it causes the animals to die.
That doesn't fly here,you are absolutely not allowed to block an easement
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
@@Kibatsume1 Some properties have no access road.
@@MrTruckerf The easement was in place for years before the guy bought the parcel.
1 year later? yikes - dude must not have understood "easement" - should have known what he was buying
One of God's greatest commandments love thou neighbors as God would love youby showing mercy and grace
Goodson is an example of everything wrong with people.
Now sue the guy for emotional distress and animal abuse
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.
Should have made it VERY EXPENSIVE for the gents to pull this nonsense. Easements are common AND . . .ENFORCEABLE.
That owner is AWFUL….that road was there when he bought the property so the other owners could get to their land.
Who would buy anything from Goodson Farms?
Not me
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.
the length of this saga is disheartening
Never underestimate how petty people can be.
Still did not answer her question as to whether this could happen again
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!
He was!
Yahhhh, this is the 1st time I have seen an update on this !! I'm so happy he made it to his cows! Dead locking land shouldn't be allowed anyway!!
Are these the same people who were convicted of more than $1,000,000 in insurance fraud?
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.
The easement stays with the land and can only be removed if all parties agree to remove it. If the land is sold the easement goes with it.
That guy that close easement is evil and greedy
Finally a voice of reason.
Sounds like Goodson had his sights set on other peoples land.
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.
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?
I almost bought a house but you had to access a portion of adjoining land and I backed out…don’t need the headache. Glad the cows are healthy now❤️🙏
I'm glad I saw the update. Dude was in the wrong and that was why the lawyer never came back to contact you again
Some people have control issues 😂
That is only ONE of his issues..
@@geraldhagen2989 🤣
Selfish greed is stinking mean, yes?
Absolute cruelty preventing a farmer from feeding his pregnant cattle. How would he like being starved?
I always seem to complicate things, but me being on a rather large tractor would have made short work of the implement blocking the road.
He bought that property with the easement. he can't go back 5 years late and saying no.
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.
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
You made a wise move by passing on that property. It would have been nothing but headaches.
The guy that blocked the easement oughta be sued for doing it
He is being sued for it.
@karlrovey he needs an Azz kicking to. Just so he never thinks about pulling that crap again.
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)
There’s a REASON it’s called an easement. It’s a legal term. It’s legal access.
Game on!! Make his life a living hell. He clearly likes to play games
I’d have taken an acetylene torch to the obstruction.
Just wait, the Goodson brothers criminal background WILL come out!
The Blocker is CRUEL ; hope that his Court costs are very HIGH. His surname 'Goodson' is the worlds biggest misnomer.
Do these people realize the importance of farmers….ridiculous
And ranchers. Farmers grow plants and ranchers raise animals....
A neighbor did this very thing. He ended up in court. What a jerk
That was straight up greed. He thought he was gonna get something from those other three farmers Judge showed him
AWESOME FOR THE FARMER. PEOPLE ARE HATEFUL.
Actually, they are all farmers in this dispute
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.
Some people are just mean. Maybe that guy shouldn't have the right to buy beef or dairy products.
We always allowed our neighbors to use our ranch roads and easements especially. We were all in it together.
Thank You💙💜💚🇺🇸
The SOB should pay treble damages.
I wonder how much business the SOB lost by doing this to his neighbors.
I own a piece of property I wish I could block the access across. I let a neighbor run a water line along a private drive I own. Later they gave me an unbelievable amount of trouble over the water line. They even called the sheriff on me because one of my renters on the private road cut off their water by mistake. I never even tried to revoke their usage even tho they were given no written access. In my state, if you allow someone use of your land for free they may be able to claim it! Strangle enough if I had had a contract drawn up and charged them even $1.00 a year rental, I could have revoked their lease.
Adverse possession? It's not just your state that allows usage to eventaully turn into a right to use.
So why hasn't Goodson been arrested yet for bracking the law
It would seem that the offending "farmer" (landowner) wanted to landlocked his neighbor's property and force a sale - to his benefit of course.
Of course this easement should be honored. If it isn't already it should be illegal to buy or sale landlocked property without a deeded easement. Plus, I'm assuming they've been taking care of this easement since they've been using it for fifty years, and I think there's a law about taking ownership of property you've maintained for a certain amount of time. The guy looked like a jackass!