Town of Leeds v. Prisbrey

DURRANT, Justice:

INTRODUCTION

¶ 1 This case, along with two companion cases that we also decide today, 1 concerns Utah Code section 72-5-104(1) (the “Dedication Statute”), which provides that “[a] highway is dedicated and abandoned to the use of the public when it has been continuously used as a public thoroughfare for a period of ten years.” 2 In this case we consider whether a continuously manned twenty-four-hour roadblock is an interruption in continuous use sufficient to restart the running of the Dedication Statute’s ten-year period. We hold that it is.

BACKGROUND

¶ 2 The road known as West…