Stuart v. Johnson

The plaintiffs, James Austin Stuart and Sarah Cross Stuart, his wife, filed a bill against Mamie T. Johnson, defendant, to enjoin the latter, who owned and occupied an adjoining property, from continuing the use of a roadway through property in Anne Arundel County which the plaintiffs had recently purchased. From a decree dismissing the bill, the plaintiffs appeal.

The plaintiffs acquired the property from Katharine Taylor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, through her agent, Richard A. Neal, with whom the plaintiffs dealt. It was an eight-acre tract, through a narrow portion of which, 146 feet in…