to a subsequent grantee with passage of the title of the dominant estate. See McWhorter v. City of Jacksonville, 694 S.W.2d 182 (Tex.App.1985); 28 C.J.S. Easements § 4a (1941). An appurtenant easement is incapable of an existence separate from the dominant estate, and any attempted severance from the dominant estate must fail. Nelson v. Johnson, 106 Idaho 385, 679 P.2d 662 (1984). See Frost v. Robinson, 76 N.C.App. 399, 333 S.E.2d 319 (1985). The owner of the dominant estate cannot change the extent of the easement or subject the servient estate to an additional burden not contemplated by the grant of easement. Stout v. Christian, 593 S.W.2d 146 (Tex.Civ.App.1980). See Ricelli v. Atkinson, 99 Ohio App. 175, 132 N.E.2d 123 (1955). Cf. Brooks v. Tanner, 101 N.M. 203, 680 P.2d 343 (1984) (<HOLDING>). In the present case, the assignment of an
holding that an easement is not a separate estate when dominant and servient tracts are under the same ownership holding that owners of a dominant estate had a duty to keep the easement in a proper state of repair to avoid damaging the servient estate through erosion holding under basic principles of property law that easement rights are subject to regulation by the forest service as the owner of the servient estate holding that the burden on the servient estate cannot be increased without the consent of the owners of the servient estate and that the owner of the dominant estate to which the appurtenant easement is attached has no power to convey or expand use of that easement in connection with a tract of land owned by another recognizing that the dominant easement owner not the servient estate owner bears responsibility for maintaining an easement