Gleason v. Central New England Railway Co.

Pound, Ch. J.

The plaintiff administrator was for many years an employee of defendant. Deceased was his wife. Eleven or twelve years before the accident he leased certain premises for a dwelling from defendant. The property was located in a triangle between two sets of tracks owned by it. The apex of the triangle points west. On the east it is bounded by property of a third person. The claim of the plaintiff is that, since there was no access to the property except over the lands of strangers, there was an implied way of necessity along the defendant’s tracks and right of way to a point about…