Healy v. Roberts

PRESIDING JUSTICE SULLIVAN

delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendants appeal from an order granting plaintiffs a prescriptive easement over an alley crossing the property of defendants and directing defendants to restore the alley to good and usable condition and to so maintain it at all times.

The parties reside in homes on adjoining parcels of property in Midlothian, Illinois. Their homes are 2 of 10 built approximately 80 years ago — all of which face south on Cottage Row. A gravel alley crosses the 10 lots approximately 170 feet south of their north lot lines, beginning in the east at…