Goad v. Bennett

This case concerns plaintiffs’ right to drive their dump trucks over the roadways of a subdivision. This to afford access to plaintiffs’ undeveloped six-acre tract therein, from which tract plaintiffs hauled topsoil. On occasions plaintiffs hauled as many as 25 loads a day but never more than 200 loads in a single year. Trouble began when the defendant lot owners protested that plaintiffs’ trucks were damaging the roadways and thereafter put barricades across the two roads serving plaintiffs’ tract.

Plaintiffs sued to enjoin defendants from blocking the roadways. By counterclaim defendants…