TAYLOR v. CARPENTER

No. 75-635.

45 Ohio St. 2d 137 (1976)

TAYLOR ET AL., APPELLANTS, v. CARPENTER, APPELLEE.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided February 18, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Gongwer & Shafer and Mr. Philip H. Shafer, for appellants.

Messrs. White & Morton and Mr. N. R. Morton, for appellee.


HERBERT, J.

Appellants contend that when the alley was vacated by the city in 1956, they were vested with a fee simple interest in one-half the width thereof.

It has long been the law of this state that where a street is vacated by a city, the land of which it was comprised passes in equal halves to the abutting lot owners, subject only to such rights as other such owners may have in the street as a necessary...

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