Davis v. Sikes

This is a bill in equity in which the plaintiff asks for an injunction restraining the defendant from passing over the plaintiff’s land and for damages. The defendant in his answer denied that he had trespassed, and alleged that he had a right of way across the land of the plaintiff which had existed for more than twenty years and had not been abandoned, and that his passing over this way was by virtue of and confined to this right of way.

A master was appointed who found in substance that the plaintiff since 1912 has owned a farm of about sixty-five acres, partly in Agawam, Massachusetts, and…