SULLIVAN v. NEAM

No. 3038.

183 A.2d 834 (1962)

Austin P. SULLIVAN, Appellant, v. Nejeeb NEAM, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided August 20, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark P. Friedlander, Washington, D. C., with whom Mark P. Friedlander, Jr., and Blaine P. Friedlander, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellant.

N. Meyer Baker, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before HOOD, Chief Judge, and QUINN and MYERS, Associate Judges.


MYERS, Associate Judge.

The question presented is whether appellant had acquired an easement by prescription for the use of a sewer pipe running through appellee's land.

The facts are uncontroverted. Appellee bought his property in 1931. Appellant purchased his house in 1960. It had been erected prior to 1910 and had been unchanged since "before 1930" except for some remodeling in 1956 which did not involve exterior plumbing and sewer connections. The two...

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