Reid v. Park County

The landowner, Charles Reid, plaintiff, appeals from a judgment of the Park County District Court refusing to quiet title in a road crossing his property and also holding that Park County, one of the defendants, had established a public road pursuant to statutes then in effect.

The landowner brought the action in April 1979. Park County, as one of the defendants, claimed that the Park County Commission had created a public road in 1905, and, alternatively, that the road had become a public one by prescriptive use. The trial court held that the commissioners had created the road by statutory…