Kogod v. Cogito

EDGERTON, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from an injunction restraining appellants from obstructing ap-pellee’s use of two alleys, on appellants’ land, that connect appellee’s adjoining land with a street. The injunction is based on a finding that appellee has a right of way by prescription.

Union Stockyard Company once- owned the whole tract. In 1894 it conveyed a landlocked portion to Washington Abattoir Company with an express easement in a driveway, not now in dispute, across part of the retained land to the street. But because of the location of Abattoir’s main slaughterhouse it was often…