Bunyard v. Turley

CLEMENS, Commissioner.

Plaintiffs James O. Bunyard and Opal Bunyard won their equity suit to declare an easement over a strip of land and to enjoin its obstruction. This appeal followed.

Plaintiffs Bunyard and defendants Tur-ley own and occupy adjoining tracts of land in rural Jefferson County. A private roadway of sorts straddles their common boundary. In 1960 defendant J. M. Turley strung a fence along the boundary line, running down the center of the roadway. The strip of land in dispute is the part of the roadway lying on defendants’ side of the boundary.

The Bunyards contended they had…