Strevell v. Mink

This appeal presents the question of whether or not a private easement, or right of way, created by deed, has been extinguished, either by abandonment or by estoppel. In 1897 one Mary Leggett acquired from Elias Warner a parcel of four and one-half acres of land situated in the town of Berne, Albany County, in the vicinity of Warner’s Lake. She was granted, over the remaining lands of the grantor lying between the demised premises and Warner’s Lake, “a right of way * * * 10 feet wide and also sufficient land on the shore of said lake for a boat house, and dock.” By mesne conveyances, which…