of the Freemans’ testimony, Sorchych asserted in his answer to the First Amended Complaint that he had not approved or agreed to contribute payment for the roadway’s maintenance and repair, but that he had offered his efforts and the reasonable use of his tractor for such maintenance and repair. Additionally, in his testimony at trial, Sorchych denied discussing the topic of contributing monetarily to maintenance with the Freemans. 9 . See also Seymour v. Hairis Trust & Sav. Bank of Chicago, 264 Ill.App.3d 583, 201 Ill.Dec. 553, 636 N.E.2d 985, 994 (1994) (stating that, in the absence of an agreement to the contrary, the owner of an easement has not only the right but the sole duty to keep the easement in repair); Lynch v. Keck, 147 Ind.App. 570, 263 N.E.2d 176, 183 (1970) (<HOLDING>); Island Improvement Ass'n of Upper Greenwood
holding that an express easement ran with the dominant estate 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 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