Costas v. Henninger

— This action was brought by the appellants for a permanent mandatory injunction to require appellees to open and replace an original entrance to a stairway. The entrance and stairway had been used jointly by and between the appellants and appellees and their immediate and remote grantors as a means of ingress and egress to and from the second floor of their respective adjoining buildings for seventy-four years. The appellants base their contention for a permanent mandatory injunction upon an easement by written grant and also by prescription.

According to the evidence, the door leading up the…