Deane v. Kahn’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “It is a well established principle that [if] an easement is appurtenant to any part of a dominant estate, and the estate is subsequently divided into parcels, each parcel may use the easement as long as the easement is applicable to the new parcel, and provided the easement can be used by the parcels without additional burden to the servient estate.... An easement is applicable to the new subdivision (1) if the easement directly abuts on the new parcel, or (2) if the owner of the new parcel can reach the easement by traveling over intervening land over which the owner has a legal right of passage .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 179 Conn. App. 58 - Deane v. Kahn

2. “On January 19, 1935, Harriet Warner conveyed a fee simple interest in [the Gorman property] to Walter Hastings. Under the terms of Harriet Warner's deed to Walter Hastings ... the tract conveyed to him was to be free of encumbrances, except that a [right-of-way] is reserved in perpetuity across said tract along the route now in use. The 1935 deed contained no other language describing the location, direction, dimensions, uses or purposes of the right-of-way so reserved, or of the route now in use along which it was to run....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 179 Conn. App. 58 - Deane v. Kahn

3. “In 1938, the Gorman property was transferred by certificate of devise from the estate of Walter Hastings to William Hastings, whereafter, in 1945, it was conveyed by William Hastings to Kenneth Johnson.... No mention of the 1935 right-of-way was made in any of the above-described conveyances of the Gorman property.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 179 Conn. App. 58 - Deane v. Kahn