Schwab v. City of Seattle

This case concerns a dispute about who can use an easement affecting several parcels of residential *744property in West Seattle. (For easier reference, we have appended a map of the area to this opinion. The streets and parcels involved are shaded.) Anthony Schwab, owner of the servient parcel,1 appeals a partial summary judgment of the King County Superior Court that granted both an easement of right and an easement of necessity across his property, dismissed his trespass claims against the owners of the dominant parcels, and canceled a lis pendens that he had recorded on those parcels with the…