Abbene v. Cohen

MiNor W. Millwee, Associate Justice.

Appellant, Yince Abbene, brought this suit to restrain appellees, Jay Cohen and wife, from closing an alleged alley or passageway along the rear of certain business properties which front on Main Street in the City of Pine Bluff, Arkansas. The appellant Abbene’s store building is known as 617 Main Street. Intervener, David White, is the lessee of A. B. Cooper who owns a building located at 615 Main Street but declined to join in the suit. Ab-bene and White asserted that they and the public generally had used the pasageway openly, continuously and adversely…