Quin v. Sabine

When the owner of lands, abutting upon a public highway, conveys to another all that portion of said lands which SO' abut, and retains the interior portion, from which interior lands he would have no way to reach a public highway except permissively over the lands of strangers, the law reserves to the grantor, as an appurtenance to the reserved lands, the easement of a right of way over the exterior lands thus conveyed, and from the interior lands to the public highway first aforesaid; and this right of easement continues so long as the necessity therefor continues, which is to say, so long…