Bradley v. Patterson

The plaintiff appeals from a decree of the superior court ruling that he does not have an easement by necessity over the land of the defendants. We affirm.

George P. Cook, the owner of a farm in Rumney, New Hampshire, died in 1912, leaving his undivided estate to his heirs. The farm has at all times been bordered on the north by Highway 25, a public way, and on the three remaining sides by the land of private owners, not parties to this proceeding.

In 1917, the heirs to the Cook estate divided the farm roughly in half and conveyed the northern part abutting Highway 25 to F. W. Roberts. The…