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- (a) By reference to non existent way. If one, in conveying land, describes it as bounded on a street (or other highway) which is in fact nonexistent, he is, as against his grantee, it is said, estopped to deny the existence of such street, the result being that he in effect grants, in so far as he owns the land covered by the supposed street, a right of way along the route thereof for the purpose of access to the land conveyed,22 and also easements of light and air such as the grantee would have had were the street actually existent.23 Likewise if land conveyed is de20. Beggs v. Duling, 102 Iowa, 13, 70 N. W. 732. As to what constitutes a new use of a new wall erected in place of an old one, so as to impose liability under the statute, see Hoffstott v. Voigt, 146 Pa. 632, 23 Atl. 351; German Nat. Bank v. Mellor, 238 Pa. 415, 86 Atl. 415.
21. Sheldon Bank v. Royce, 84 Iowa, 288, 50 N. W. 986.
Am. Rep. 109; Plumer v. Johnston, 63 Mich. 65, 29 N. W. 687; Crosby v. Greenville, - Mich. -, 150 N. W. 246; Moses v. St. Louis Sectional Dock Co., 84 Mo. 242; Lindsay v. Jones, 21 Nev. 72; White v. Tidewater Oil Co., 50 N. J. Eq. 1; Imperial Realty Co. v. West Jersey & S. R. Co., 78 N. J. Eq. 110, 77 Atl. 1041; United N. J. Railway & Canal Co. v. Crucible Steel Co., 86 X. J. Eq. 258, 98 Atl. 1087, affirming 85 N. J. Eq. 7, 95 Atl. 243; White's Bank v. Nichols, 64 N. Y. 65; Niagara Falls v. New York Cent. & H. R. R. Co., 168 N. Y. 610, 61 N. E. 185; Weeks v. New York W. & B. Ry. Co., 207 N. Y. 190, 100 N. E. 719; Ott v. Kreiter, 110 Pa. St. 370, 1 Atl. 724; Shetter v. Welzel, 242 Pa. 355, 89 Atl. 455; Gish v. Roanoke, 119 Va. 519, 89 S. E. 970; Espley v. Wilkes, L. R. 7 Exch. 298.
N. Y. 361, 84 N. E. 297; Dill v. Board of Education of City of Camden, 47 N. J. Eq. 421, 10 L. R. A. 276, 20 Atl. 739; Fitzgerald v. Barbour, 55 Fed. 440, 5 C. C. A. 180.
24. Garstang v. Davenport, 90 Iowa, 359, 57 N. W. 876; Riley v. Stein, 50 Kan. 591, 32 Pac. 947; Reccus v. Weber, 142 Ky. 157, 134 S. W. 145; Young v. Braman, 105 Me. 494, 75 Atl. 120; Fox v. Union Sugar Refinery, 109 Mass. 292; Mckenzie v. Gleason, 184 Mass. 452, 100 Am. St. Rep. 566, 69 N. E. 1076; Gould v. Wagner, 196 Mass. 276, 82 N. E. 10; Flagg v. Phillips, 201 Mass. 216, 87 N. E. 598; Carlin v. Paul, 11 Mo. 32, 47 Am. Dec. 139; Cox v. James, 45 N. Y. 557; Hennessy v. Murdoch, 137 N. Y. 317, 33 N. E. 330; Rhoads v. Walter, 61 Pa. Super. Ct. 43. But see Milliken v. Denny, 135 N. C. 19, 47 S. E. 132.
The fact that land is bounded by a private passageway does not, it has been decided, give any rights of light and air as regards the space occupied by such way, except in so far as required for the purposes of passage. Bitello v. Lipson, 80 Conn. 497, 16 L. R. A. (N. S.) 193, 125 Am. St. Rep. 126, 69 Atl. 21. And a description of the land conveyed as bounded on an "open court" was held to give no easements of light and air which would prevent the erection of a building on the court. Lipsky v. Heller, 199 Mass. 310, 85 N. E. 453.
25. Thomas v. Poole, 7 Gray. (Mass.) 83; Rodgers v. Parker, 9 Gray (Mass.) 445; Ralph v. Clifford, 224 Mass. 58, 112 N. E. 482; Tobey v. Taunton, 119 Mass. 404; Mcconnell v. Rathbun, 46 Mich. 303, 9 N. W. 426; Schreck v. Blun, 131 Ga. 489, 62 S. E. 705. Compare Langmaid v. Hig-gins, 129 Mass. 353.
In so far as one who has conveyed land as bounded on a street or way which is in fact nonexistent is pre26. Mckenzie v. Gleason, 184 Mass. 452, 100 Am. St. Rep. 566, 69 N. E. 1076.
27. Lankin v. Terwilliger, 22 Ore. 97, 29 Pac. 268; Talbert v. Mason, 136 Iowa, 373, 113 N. W. 918 (dictum); Pierpoint v. Har-risville, 9 W. Va. 215 (semblc). And see Neely v. Philadelphia. 212 Pa. 551, 61 Atl. 1096.
28. Atwood v. O'brien, 80 Me. 447, 15 Atl. 44. But see Teasley v. Stanton, 136 Ala. 641, 96 Am. St. Rep. 88, 33 So. 823.

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