Hurt v. Lenchuk

OWEN, Judge.

The primary question presented by this case is whether a property owner in a platted subdivision within a municipality has a vested private right to continue to use that portion of a street in the subdivision which has been lawfully vacated by the municipal authorities. A corollary question is whether the owners of the property abutting the vacated portions of the street have the right to place obstructions therein.

The plat of Virginia Heights, a subdivision in the City of Winter Park, was recorded in 1922. The plat shows College Point Street running northward toward Lake…