Harrison v. Heald

Presented is a question of easement by implied reservation of the right to use a 2-foot-wide sidewalk alongside plaintiff’s house.

In 1910 a Mrs. Kapp owned a parcel of city residential property. She occupied what is referred to as the old house on the west side of the parcel. In that year she built a new house, now owned by plaintiff, on the east side of the parcel and caused the above mentioned sidewalk to be laid between the 2 houses, 1 foot from the side of the new house. It was the only outdoor means of access to the new house’s coal chute, its side door leading to a stairway by which one…