“This matter came before the court for a bench trial on plaintiffs’ claim that they are entitled to a prescriptive easement over defendant’s property. The parties stipulated to the extinguishment of one easement over a passageway (Count 1) and the granting of an easement for plaintiffs’ stairs onto defendant’s property (Count 3). This leaves for the court’s resolution the claim of an easement from a passageway from the back of plaintiffs’ buildings across defendant’s property to Vernon Court and State Street.
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For all of the above reason, the court concludes that the plaintiffs have not shown by a preponderance of the evidence that they used defendant’s property maintaining a claim of right adverse to the owner of defendant’s property and actual adversity and notice to the defendant during the relevant period.”