Current v. Stevenson

By the bill complainants ask that the defendants he enjoined from obstructing* a road, by gates or otherwise, across the southern end of their farm, which is the only outlet they (complainants) have from their adjoining farm to the main highway.

The chancellor found that complainants and their predecessors had acquired a prescriptive right to said highway, but held that the defendants had the right to construct gates where said road entered and passed out of their land. The Court of Appeals also found that complainants had acquired a prescriptive right in said road, but, following our recent…