Hanby v. Wereschak

Wolcott, Chief Justice:

This is an appeal from a judgment in the Court of Chancery entered in an action which sought to restrain the defendants from interfering with the plaintiffs’ use of a certain lane, the use of which had been granted in the deed of the defendants conveying a certain property to the plaintiffs. The defendants counter-claimed seeking to enjoin the plaintiffs from using such lane or in the alternative, for the reformation of the deed in question.

Plaintiffs are the owners as the result of purchase from the defendants of a lot of land without access to a public road and as a…