Case Name: Ebenezer Wiswall, plaintiff in error, agt. Levinus A. Lansing, defendant in error
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1848-09
Citations: 5 How. Pr. 77
Docket Number: 
Parties: Ebenezer Wiswall, plaintiff in error, agt. Levinus A. Lansing, defendant in error.
Judges: 
Reporter: Howard's Practice Reports
Volume: 5
Pages: 77–77

Head Matter:
Ebenezer Wiswall, plaintiff in error, agt. Levinus A. Lansing, defendant in error.
Judgment affirmed.
D. Buel Jr. for plaintiff in error; John K. Porter for defendant in error.

Opinion:
This was an action for obstructing a way. It was held, among other questions, that a devise of land to which a right of way is appurtenant, will pass the easement to the devisee, although it be not particularly specified in the will
Also that twenty years uninterrupted and unqualified enjoyment of a way across the lands of another, is decisive evidence of a grant of the right of way.
Other questions in relation to the pleadings and exceptions in the case were decided. Reported, 5 Denio, 213.