Stapf v. Wobbrock

Appeal by defendant' from a judgment enjoining the erection of a barrier across a right of way claimed by plaintiff over a ten-acre tract in which defendant has a life estate.

Plaintiff owns 54 acres of land east from that of defendant. Between plaintiff’s and defendant’s land is a ten-acre wood lot owned by one Egan. On the west side of defendant’s ten acres is a public road. Plaintiff has no access to any public road from his land except across said Egan’s and defendant’s land. Prior to 1896 there had been traveling for many years by the occupants of plaintiff’s land and also by Egan across…