Brinkley v. Brinkley

PRESIDING JUSTICE HARRISON

delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiffs, Harold W. Brinkley and Brinkley Enterprises, Inc., appeal from a judgment entered in two consolidated cases by the circuit court of Crawford County. At issue in those cases was whether plaintiffs had the right to install and use a natural gas pipeline under a certain dirt road located in Montgomery Township, Crawford County. Plaintiffs argued that they had such a right because (1) the road in question had become a public highway by prescription pursuant to section 2 — 202 of the Illinois Highway Code (Ill. Rev. Stat.…