Langan v. Whalen

Ames, C.

Plaintiff in error Mary Langan owns a tract of land lying within what, are now the corporate limits of the village of Wood River. Crossing the tract at about the middle is a strip called by the parties a “turning row”; that is, a strip of unplowed ground lying between plowed fields on each side, and upon which the teams used in cultivating the fields are turned around. Since the beginning of 1882, if not longer, this strip has been used by the public conti n uously, to some extent, as a roadway, and in May of that year proceedings were begun by the county board for the establishment…