Hayes v. Reynolds

CARROLL, DONALD K., Chief Judge.

The plaintiffs in an equity suit have appealed from a final decree entered by the Circuit Court for Putnam County establishing a public easement and private way of necessity across their and the defendants’ lands.

Six married couples, who own lands which are cut off from the nearest state road by the property owned by the defendants Reynolds, filed a suit in that court to enjoin the said defendants from closing a dirt road running over their lands from the plaintiffs’ property to the state road. A few days later the chancellor issued a temporary injunction…