Commercial Finance Corp. v. Langston

PARKER, Judge.

Separate owners of adjoining tracts record a plat showing subdivision of both tracts. into lots served by streets crossing both tracts. Each owner then sells lots from his tract to third parties, in so doing making reference to the recorded plat. Do purchasers of lots from one tract thereby acquire the right to have the streets across the other tract remain open? We hold that they do.

It is well settled in this State that when an owner of land has it subdivided and platted into streets and lots and thereafter sells, a lot by reference to the plat, nothing else appearing the…