Main Street Plaza v. Cartwright & Main, LLC

Opinion

FYBEL, J.—

Introduction

Plaintiffs, owners of a retail center and food court, sought a judicial declaration that they had acquired a prescriptive easement for parking and access by their tenants’ customers, employees, suppliers, and other invitees, over an alleyway behind the owners’ property. The alleyway is located on *1047plaintiffs’ property and two adjoining properties. A railway easement ran along the same land as the alleyway; property taxes were assessed on the railway easement, and the holder of the railway easement paid those taxes.

Defendant owners of the two adjoining properties…