Davies v Stephens

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date26 July 1836
Date26 July 1836
CourtHigh Court

English Reports Citation: 173 E.R. 251

IN THE COURTS OF KING'S BENCH, COMMON PLEAS AND EXCHEQUER

Davies
and
Stephens

Attornies-James, and Rees

*f3-*~ f July 26th, 1836. davies v. stephens. (The user ol a way during the occupation of tenants does not bind the landlord unless he was aware of it ; but if the user has been for a great length of time, it may be presumed that he was aware of it. If, in an action of trespass, the defendant pleads a footway, his plea is supported by proof of a carriage-way, as a, carriageway always includes a footway. A gate being kept across a way is not conclusive that it is not a public way, as the way may have been granted to the public with a reservation of the right of keeping a gate across it to prevent cattle straying ) [Referred to, Rishion v. Hat lingden Corporation, [1898] 1 Q B 294 ; A.-G v. Simpson, [1901] 2 Ch 671 ; Roberts v. Jatnei,, 1903, 89 L T 282 , Corsellut v. London County Council, [1907] 1 Ch. 704 , Coats v. Here/otdsfute County Council, [1909] 2 Ch 579 ; A.-G v. Watford, [1912] 1 Ch 419 J Trespass for breaking and entering plaintiff's close, called Monk Haven Lays, and treading down the grass, &c. Plea-A public right of footway for all the King's subjects into, through, and over the locus in quo, and justifying thereunder as one of the public. Replication-traversing the plea The way claimed was a footpath from a public parish road over the close in question, down to the sea, where there was a small inlet. In order to support the claim, the defendant proved, that, for the last thirty or forty years (during all which time the close was in the occupation of tenants), fishermen had been knowu occasionally to land and carry up fish along the way in question , that others came up that way for water, or when driven in by stress of weather , that some went down that way to bathe, and that others were known to haul up wreck, sand, stones, and seaweed by the way claimed, without its ever having been objected to by the different tenants. But it appeared that gates had been kept sometimes locked across the way, and it never had been known to be repaired by the parish Lord Denman -I never before remember a way being claimed \\ithoutstating to what place, or from whence it leids. (a] See the cases of Rex v. Foster, ante, p 148, and Reju v Hope^, ante, p 136. (b) See the case of Rex v Jones, Carr. Bupp. 13. 252 MORRIS V. NUGENT 7 CAR. ft P. 571. B V. Williams --The way claimed here is one...

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