Olson v. McRae

DIMOND, Justice.

In answer to special interrogatories, a jury found that appellants had dedicated for public use a right of way across their lands. Appellants contend that they were entitled to judgment because evidence of their intent to dedicate a right of way was insufficient to justify submitting the case to the jury.

In Hamerly v. Denton 1 we said that there is a dedication when the owner of an interest in land transfers- to the public a privilege of use of such interest for a public purpose, and that the intention of the land owner to dedicate must be clearly and unequivocally manifested…