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CRITERIA FOR AN EASEMENT BY NECESSITY EXPLAINED, NOT MET HERE; THE NECESSITY MUST EXIST AT THE TIME THE LANDLOCKED PARCEL WAS SEVERED; PROOF OF A FUTURE INTENT TO USE THE PARCEL FOR PERSONAL PARKING WAS DEEMED INSUFFICIENT (FOURTH DEPT). ​

The Fourth Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined plaintiff did not satisfy the criteria for an easement by necessity for access to a landlocked parcel:

“[T]he party asserting an easement by necessity bears the burden of establishing by clear and convincing evidence . . . that there was a unity and subsequent separation of title, and . . . that at the time of severance an easement over [the servient estate’s] property was absolutely necessary” … .

… [P]laintiff established that he had common ownership of the subject parcels at the time of severance. We agree with defendant, however, that, “inasmuch as the existence and extent of an easement by necessity is determined based on the circumstances as they existed at the time of severance” … , plaintiff failed to establish by clear and convincing evidence that the use and extent of a right-of-way he now seeks was “absolutely necessary” upon separation of title … . While plaintiff generally averred in his affidavit in support of his motion that he retained his landlocked parcel “for purposes of utilizing [the] space for personal parking needs,” any such statement of future intentions failed to establish the nature and extent of the access over the conveyed property that was “indispensable to the reasonable use for the [retained] property” upon severance of title … . Trusso v Brev519, LLC, 2024 NY Slip Op 04880, Fourth Dept 10-4-24

Practice Point: The “necessity” for an easement by necessity must be demonstrated to have existed at the time the landlocked parcel was severed. Proof of a future intent to use the parcel for personal parking was therefore deemed insufficient to support an easement by necessity.

 

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