Court Opinion

ID: 6346387
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-06-02 23:05:55.80692+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:49:21.218058
License: Public Domain

GENOVA vs. CORNELL, MISC 20-000227

 
 ARTHUR & PATRICIA GENOVA, Individually and as Trustees of The Thirty Seven Wyndham Hill Drive Realty Trust, Plaintiffs, v. STEPHEN CORNELL, Defendant
 MISC 20-000227 
 JANUARY 21, 2021
PLYMOUTH, ss.
ROBERTS, J.
JUDGMENT

  	Plaintiffs Arthur and Patricia Genova, individually and as Trustees of The Thirty Seven  Wyndham Hill Drive Realty Trust ("the Genovas"), commenced this action on June 22, 2020  with the filing of a Verified Complaint against defendant Stephen Cornell ("Mr. Cornell")  seeking, among other things, a preliminary injunction requiring that Mr. Cornell remove  obstructions blocking the Genovas' access to their dock on Island Pond ("the Pond") in  Plymouth, Massachusetts, reached by them over a way now known as Smaland Lane and  formerly known as Crescent Road ("Smaland Lane/Crescent Road") and shown on a plan  entitled "Plan Of Camp Lots At Great Herring Shores The Cape's Master Camp Site Main Office  -- Red Log Cabin At Junction Of Canal Road At Buzzards Bay -- Phone -- Buzzards Bay 345 -- Buzzards Bay -- Mass. Unit B." ("the Unit B Plan") and recorded in the Plymouth County  Registry of Deeds ("the Registry") at Plan Book 4, Page 337. More broadly, the Genovas seek (1) a declaration that they have an easement to pass and repass over Smaland Lane/Crescent  Road with which Mr. Cornell has wrongfully interfered and (2) a permanent injunction protecting their easement rights. At the close of the pleadings, the Genovas filed Plaintiff's  Motion For Judgment On The Pleadings. In a memorandum of decision of even date, the court  (Roberts, J.) ALLOWED that motion and ordered the entry of judgment. Accordingly, it is 

	ORDERED, ADJUGED and DECLARED on Count I of the Verified Complaint that,  as between Mr. Cornell and the Genovas, the Genovas have a right to pass and repass over that  section of Smaland Lane/Crescent Road that abuts Mr. Cornell's property, known as 14 Smaland  Lane and further described in a deed dated September 18, 2007 and recorded in the Registry at  Book 35225, Page 184 ("the Cornell Property"). 

	It is further 

	ORDERED and ADJUDGED on Count IV of the Verified Complaint, that Mr.  Cornell's obstruction of Smaland Lane/Crescent Road as it abuts the Cornell Property constituted  a trespass against the Genovas' easement rights, for which no damages were sought and none are  awarded. 

	It is further 

	ORDERED that Mr. Cornell is permanently enjoined from obstructing the Genovas' free  passage, regardless of purpose, over Smaland Lane/Crescent Road as it abuts the Cornell  Property. 

	It is further 

	ORDERED and ADJUDGED that this Judgment is a full adjudication of the parties'  claims in this case, and all prayers for relief by any party to this action that are not granted in the  preceding paragraphs are denied, the court specifically noting that, because of the absence of  necessary parties, it did not reach issues related to ownership of the bed of the Pond or the area  between the northern boundary of Smaland Lane/Crescent Road and the waters of the Pond.

	SO ORDERED. 

Home/Search 
Land Cases by Docket Number
Land Cases by Date  
Land Cases by Name

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Trial Court Law Libraries. Questions about legal information? Contact Reference Librarians.