Legal Opinion
Bonds v. Smith
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided June 12, 1944No. 8575PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MILLER, Associate Justice.
The trial court found that appellee and her predecessors in title continuously, openly, notoriously and adversely used for more than twenty years a four foot right of way over a portion of appellants’ lot as a means of ingress and egress to a public alley; that appellants wrongfully erected, or caused to be erected, a fence obstructing the right of way. It concluded that appellee was entitled to a mandatory injunction requiring removal of the obstruction and preventing obstruction in the future. From its judgment this appeal was taken.
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