Oliver Schlemmer Co. v. Steinman-Meyer Furniture Co.

Citations

• 18 Ohio C.C. Dec. 474
• 7 Ohio C.C. (n.s.) 468
• 1905 Ohio Misc. LEXIS 484

Syllabus

<p>EASEMENTS.</p> <p>Jelke, Swing and Giffen, JJ.</p> <p>1. Alley Dedicated and Accepted is Public Thoroughfare.</p> <p>An alley, duly dedicated and accepted as such, becomes a public way, and abutting premises are invested with an appurtenant easement therein.</p> <p>2. Abutting Owneb may not Obstruct Public Alley.</p> <p>Where one of two owners, whose properties abut on an alley in the rear, obtains a vacation of the alley without the consent of the other owner, the petitioning owner cannot thereafter obstruct the alley at the only means of exit without furnishing some other means of egress therefrom, notwithstanding the nonconsenting owner has access to the front of his lot.</p> <p>[Syllabus approved by the court.]</p>