Vanderbilt University v. Williams

This bill was filed to recover one-half of rents collected by defendant Williams from a fruit vendor, who had occupied a space in a passageway or alley, located between buildings owned respectively by the complainants and this defendant. It was originally charged that complainants had a perpetual easement for passageway use in one-half of this alley. At the hearing an amend ment was offered to the hill, and allowed to he made by the chancellor, so as to charge ownership of an undivided one-half interest in fee in the passage, or a private easement therein. The defendant opposed the granting…