Fidelity Union Trust Co. v. Cochrane

The complainant, owner of Lake Owassa (Long Pond) in Sussex county, seeks to restrain owners and occupants of summer cottages surrounding the lake from fishing, boating and bathing in the lake. The defendants are eighty in number.

The answering defendants deny the complainant's title, and, all but one, set up that they have an easement of boating and bathing in the lake by adverse user of their predecessor in title and themselves for twenty years and more, those on the northerly and easterly side of the lake claiming by prescription to one Allen, their common grantor, those on the southerly…