Court Opinion

ID: 9447812
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 22:45:17.025317+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:31:12.269648
License: Public Domain

PER CURIAM.
Mrs. C. Phelps Crosby sued to enjoin Claudia S. Johnsen from obstructing or interfering with the normal use of a four-foot passway extending from the rear of the latter's premises on Massachusetts Avenue to Que Street. She alleged she and her predecessors in title to. a Que Street parcel adjacent to the alleged passway had used it for more than, twenty years adversely and under a claim of right; that this use had been “continuous, open, notorious, uninterrupted,, exclusive, peaceful, and with knowledge- and acquiescence of the owners of lot 30-[the servient estate], during said period', until in or about the month of June, 1954,. when the defendants erected or caused to be erected a fence obstructing and' closing said right of way, over the protest of the plaintiff and causing the-plaintiff to suffer irreparable injury.”
After hearing evidence, the District. Judge made factual findings which justified his holding that, prior to 1954, “there was a sufficiently continuous use-of the alley for a sufficiently long period', of time to establish the prescriptive right in the owner and occupant of 2008 Que-Street [Mrs. C. Phelps Crosby] of a. right-of-way through that alley.”
The owner of the servient estate appeals. We are of the view that the evidence as a whole gives substantial support to the trial judge’s findings. His-judgment, which logically followed those-findings, must be upheld.
Affirmed.