Opinion ID: 2362105
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: The Lane

Text: [¶ 2] This consolidated action involves (1) the determination of the status of Tasker Lane, the narrow road  roughly 100 yards in length  connecting Hill and Lincoln Streets in the City of Saco, and (2) the status of a right-of-way reserved in a 1915 deed across the DesJardinses' property. Tasker Lane was first established as a private passageway to the Homestead Farm of Joseph Hill, the common grantor of all the property at issue. The Hill homestead, which sat on what is now the Casavant property, was destroyed in the 1960s. [¶ 3] The area in question is essentially triangular in shape, bounded on the northwest by Hill Street, on the south by Lincoln Street (formerly known as the Boom Road), and on the east by a strip of land owned by parties not involved in this action. Tasker Lane diagonally severs this area in two. Although the City did not pave the lane until 1985, it had maintained the road for over forty years. The Fitanides family helped to plow the lane since the 1940s. Within the past 40 years, however, the family's plowing has been infrequent and undefined in scope. Presently, Tasker Lane is a one-lane, paved road with no sidewalks or curbs. There are no sewer or storm drainage facilities on the road, but there is a water line servicing the area.