Stivason v. Serene

Opinion by

Gawthrop, J.,

Plaintiff seeks by this bill in equity to compel defendants to cease obstructing and occupying for private purposes any part of certain public streets to the use of which plaintiff avers he was entitled as ways appurtenant to certain lots of land owned by him After answer filed and issue joined by replication, the case was tried and the lower court granted the relief prayed for. Defendants appealed.

The facts have been found and stated at length by the learned chancellor in the court below and a brief summary of them will suffice here. William Stewart died in 1876.…