Haley v. City of Rapid City

WOLLMAN, Justice.

The trial court entered a judgment that enjoined the city of Rapid City from opening an alley and that decreed that the alley is not a public way. The judgment also enjoined Clifford Nall from utilizing the alley. Both defendants have appealed. We reverse.

James and Ann Haley (respondents) are owners of a residential lot in Block 39, West Boulevard Addition, in the city of Rapid City. An alley borders respondents’ property. This dispute centers around a forty foot section of that alley. In 1975, appellant Nall acquired property abutting the segment of the .alley that had…