S. S. Kresge Co. v. Winkelman Realty Co.

The defendants claim that the owner of land has a right to use it to its fullest economic value. With this general statement there can be no quarrel. However, the plaintiff is the owner of the alleyway in question, subject to the easement established by the judgment of 1936. There is another general statement of law that an easement can be used only in connection with the estate to which it is appurtenant. Reise v. Enos, 76 Wis. 634, 45 N. W. 414; Guse v. Flohr, 195 Wis. 139, 217 N. W. 730. A prescriptive right acquired by a particular use of the property cannot ordinarily justify an added…