Farmington Library Association v. Trafton

The plaintiff claims that the easement is appurtenant to its land, while the defendant would limit it to the building which stood on the land so that the loss or removal of the building meant a termination of the easement. Whether a new building erected on the same site as that of the building burned would have had the benefit of the easement need not be decided.

The northerly wall of the library building is about eleven feet distant from the way in its course on the northerly side of the middle street lot, and the building is intended as a permanent structure. The way granted was only five…