Old Town Tree Farm, Inc. v. Long Island Power Authority

A party claiming entitlement to an easement by prescription must demonstrate the adverse, open and notorious, and continuous use of the subject property for the prescriptive period (see Vitiello v Merwin, 87 AD3d 632, 633 [2011]; Manouselis v Woodworth Realty, LLC, 83 AD3d 801 [2011]). “Absolute necessity in fact is the standard for a finding of an easement by necessity” (Michalski v Decker, 16 AD3d 469, 470 [2005]; see Town of Pound Ridge v Golenbock, 264 AD2d 773, 774 [1999]; Van Schaack v Torsoe, 161 AD2d 701, 703 [1990]; McQuinn v Tantalo, 41 AD2d 575 [1973]).

Here, the defendants failed…