Goudie v. Fisher
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
One Moulton owned a lot of land in Lisbon on the northerly side of Atwood street. There was upon the front of this lot a house and back of it a paint shop. October 6, 1913, Moulton deeded to the defendant a portion of this land. The lot conveyed had a frontage on the street of seventy-five feet, and extended back sixty feet.
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One Moulton owned a lot of land in Lisbon on the northerly side of Atwood street. There was upon the front of this lot a house and back of it a paint shop. October 6, 1913, Moulton deeded to the defendant a portion of this land. The lot conveyed had a frontage on the street of seventy-five feet, and extended back sixty feet. The deed to the defendant contained the following reservation: “I hereby reserve the right of way to the paint shop in the rear of the building above described.” The house which was upon the land conveyed to the defendant had two tenements. The upper tenement on the…
1Opinion of the CourtPlummer, J.
The defendant seeks to sustain her exception upon the ground that she had a right of way over the plaintiff’s land by necessity, and also that the driveway was an easement appurtenant to the land she purchased, and passed to her with the deed of the land. The defendant had no right of way over the plaintiff’s land by necessity. The entire front of her land was on Atwood street, and was, therefore, accessible from the street.
The case states that the driveway to the paint shop was, at the time of the conveyance to the defendant, the only approach for heavy teams to the basement tenement, and…
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- Batchelder v. State Capital BankSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1890
- Cox v. LevistonSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1884
- Sandford v. BossSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1912
- Wentworth v. PhilpotSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1880
- DeRochemont v. B. & M. RailroadSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1888
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- Johnson v. LabombardSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1947