Shuttle Contracting Corp. v. Peikarian
| Citation | 968 N.Y.S.2d 179,108 A.D.3d 516,2013 N.Y. Slip Op. 05057 |
| Parties | SHUTTLE CONTRACTING CORP., appellant, v. Behzad PEIKARIAN, et al., respondents. |
| Decision Date | 03 July 2013 |
| Court | New York Supreme Court Appellate Division |
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Law Offices of Avrum J. Rosen, PLLC, Huntington, N.Y. (Deborah L. Dobbin of counsel), for appellant.
Forchelli, Curto, Deegan, Schwartz, Mineo & Terrana, LLP, Uniondale, N.Y. (Andrea Tsoukalas of counsel), for respondents.
PETER B. SKELOS, J.P., JOHN M. LEVENTHAL, LEONARD B. AUSTIN, and SANDRA L. SGROI, JJ.
In an action, inter alia, for a judgment declaring that the defendants are not permitted to construct a driveway across that portion of the plaintiff's property known as “the bulge” in order to access the paved portion of a private road known as Dwight Lane, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Cozzens, Jr., J.), entered August 18, 2011, which granted that branch of the defendants' motion which was pursuant to CPLR 3211(a)(1) to dismiss the complaint and for a judgment declaring that the defendants are permitted to construct a driveway across that portion of the plaintiff's property known as “the bulge” in order to access the paved portion of a private road known as Dwight Lane.
ORDERED that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, and that branch of the defendants' motion which was pursuant to CPLR 3211(a)(1) to dismiss the complaint and for a judgment declaring that the defendants are permitted to construct a driveway across that portion of the plaintiff's property known as “the bulge” in order to access the paved portion of a private road known as Dwight Lane is denied.
The plaintiff is the owner of real property in Nassau County known as Dwight Lane, a private road which, at most points, is approximately 30 feet wide. Within Dwight Lane is a paved roadway, ranging in width from 12 to 13 feet. The defendants are the owners of a parcel of real property abutting Dwight Lane which was subdivided into three buildable lots. The portion of Dwight Lane which abuts one of the subdivided parcels is wider than the rest of Dwight Lane, and the wider portion is a grassy area known as “the bulge.” The defendants' right to use Dwight Lane for, among other things, ingress and egress was granted in an easement dated January 5, 1950.
The plaintiff commenced this action against the defendants, inter alia, for a judgment declaring that the defendants are not permitted, under the easement, to construct a driveway across the bulge in order to access the paved portion of Dwight Lane from the subdivided parcel. In the order appealed from, the Supreme Court granted that branch of the defendants' motion which was pursuant to CPLR 3211(a)(1) to dismiss the complaint and for a judgment declaring that they are permitted to construct a driveway across the bulge in order to access the paved portion of Dwight Lane.
The documentary evidence submitted by the defendants establishes that they were granted an easement in general terms, with no limitations, which described the right-of-way over Dwight Lane by its metes and bounds. Where, as here, an easement is granted in general terms, “the extent of its use includes any reasonable use necessary and convenient for the purposefor which it is created” ( Havel v. Goldman, 95 A.D.3d 1174, 1175, 945 N.Y.S.2d 332;see Missionary Socy. of...
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