Hall v. Rood

Complainants and defendant are the owners in severalty of certain adjoining property in the village of Kalamazoo, upon which buildings have been erected, and in the rear of which there is, and has been since 1848, a private alley twenty feet wide.

More than twenty years previous to the time the bill was filed in this cause, a wooden building was erected between the rear of defendant’s building and this private way, which it is conceded encroached upon the alley some six inches.

In 1878 defendant desired to make some improvements upon this wooden building. He tore off the siding, and commenced…