Lang v. Isabelle

The issue in this equity case is whether the evidence supports the court’s finding that plaintiffs had acquired a right of way by prescription over land of the defendant. We hold that it does.

Plaintiffs are owners of a farm in Salem which they acquired from one Law in 1972. Mr. Law had owned the property since 1937. Defendant is the owner of property which was once owned by Law’s grantor. It lies south of the plaintiffs’ property and is separated from it by a stone wall with a gate which gives access to a right of way across defendant’s property to Pond Street which is defendant’s southerly…