Whitman v. Cook

This is an injunction bill filed to restrain defendants from opening a private right of way across complainant’s lands, from the Fenton road, so called, to land on the shore of Long Lake, purchased by the defendants from the complainant. From a decree dismissing the bill of complaint and establishing the private way, the case is brought here by appeal.

Omitting the formal parts of the bill of complaint, it avers the making of a deed between the parties containing the words:

“Also conveying the right of way from the Fenton road to the grove back of Fred J. Pierson’s property; thence north along…