Hudson v. Gaines

OPINION

BISSETT, Justice.

In this suit, Jack Gaines, plaintiff, sought to have an existing roadway adjudicated to be a public road. The jury, in response to the several issues submitted, found that the road had never been dedicated as a public road, and that it had not been used and travelled by the public generally for a continuous and uninterrupted period of more than ten years after it was opened up in the year 1955. The trial court overruled defendants’ motion for judgment in accordance with the jury verdict, and granted plaintiff’s motion for judgment non obstante veredicto. Defendants…