Jacobs v. Brewster

By this action Mr. and Mrs. Otto H. Jacobs sought to quiet the title to and enjoin the use of a strip of land constituting a part of a joint driveway. The defendant, Lanore Brewster, claimed an easement in the strip of land and asked that Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs be enjoined from interfering with her use of the driveway.

The trial court found that in 1924 the plaintiffs and Ernest W. Lamy, the then owner of Mrs. Brewster's lot, constructed a joint driveway and a joint garage on their adjoining lots, each paying one-half the cost and each contributing an approximately equal amount of space. The…