Sullivan v. Donohoe

The plaintiff and the defendants Donohoe (whom we will call simply the defendants) own adjoining lots, with a frontage of twenty-three feet each; on the westerly side of Albany Street in Boston, the plaintiff’s lot being the more northerly. The entire front of each lot was occupied by a building about ninety years old. Access to the rear of the lots was had by a common covered passageway along the boundary line between the lots, occupying apart from walls eighteen inches of the width of each lot. Each party had an easement by grant in this passageway, which was to be kept in repair at equal…