Question juridique clé
Whether a necessary passage had to be granted over the defendants' parcel under Art. 694 CC.
Solution extraite
Yes. Because parcel AAA lacked sufficient access and parcel BBB was the parcel most naturally burdened given the prior subdivision and existing but insufficient easement, the necessary passage was correctly imposed there.
Motifs extraits
Art. 694(2) CC gives priority to the neighbor from whom passage can most naturally be claimed due to the prior state of the properties and access routes. The existing 1943 easement on BBB, though too narrow for cars, made BBB the prior and primary burdened parcel; the less-damaging-access criterion was therefore only subsidiary.