Reiver v. Voshell

The Chancellor:

The solicitors for the complainants have argued this case on the assumption that the facts show a case of the owner of a vacant plot of land laying the same out in twelve building lots, each abutting upon a fourteen foot, seven inch alley carved out of the rear of the plot, erecting on the plot a solid row of twelve adjoining houses with basement garages, conveying the houses and lots to several grantees together with an easement over the alley for automobiles and other traffic in common with others entitled thereto forever, the owner of the original plot retaining in himself…