Messick v. Kincaid’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““At the outset it 's insisted for appellant that no cause of action for injunctive relief is presented by the record in this case. In Alexander, &c. v. Tebeau, &c., 24 Rep., 1305, this identical question was before the court. Plaintiffs there sought to have the defendants enjoined from closing a ten foot alley in the rear of their property. A demurrer was sustained to the petition and, upon consideration here, the court said of these acts on the part of the defendants: “ ‘They have no inore right to fence up this alley on which her coal house and stable front than they would have to close Florence Place on which her residence fronts. It was dedicated to the public in the original plat subdividing the property into lots for sale, and the deed by defendant, Dulaney, &c., to their vendor, Willis, calls for it. We are of opinion that in so far as the petition sought to restrain defendants from fencing up or in any wise interfering with plaintiff’s right to the use and enjoyment of this alley that the petition set up a good cause of action, and the demurrer should have been overruled. ’ “Most applicable to the case at bar is the language quoted. Here the appellant had laid out a portion of her property into lots and, in order to sell them, had dedicated to the city a strip of ground in front of the lots, making an extension of Green street. On the faith of such dedication a sale of one of said lots had been made to appellee, and appellant will not now be heard to say that the prop”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Capella v. Carreras Márquez