1 E.H. Smith 338 - Haight v. . Littlefield’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 36 state decisions

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1. ““This conveyance and the others referred to, with the maps bounding the premises upon a street, secured to the plaintiffs an easement or right of way in the strip of land so delineated, described, and recognized. Whether it was then a public street or not, this easement or right of way was attached as an appurtenance of the land conveyed, and part of the thing granted; and thereupon the plaintiffs acquired the right to insist at all times that the way be kept open and unobstructed for the benefit of their premises, and as a means of access to and from the same. It is a property right the destruction or invasion of which constitutes a ground of relief in equity. Irrespective of the rights of the public in a public street, the owners of lots bounded upon a street have, under the circumstances disclosed, a right of way as between themselves and their grantor.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Scripture v. Morris