Downey v. Hopkins

Downey and Hopkins are neighbors. Hopkins occupies a lot between which and a street is Downey’s lot, but it being eight feet shorter than Hopkins’ lot, the latter has access to the street through an alley over those eight feet. Downey complains that Hopkins has done him great wrong in the manner he has used that alley. The record is large, two hundred and eighty pages of testimony alone. The court gave instructions at the instance of the plaintiff, four without, and more with modification; but how many more, and what, or with what mtidification the record does not show, as but one of them is…