Weigel v. Cooper

Carleton Harris, Chief Justice.

The question in this litigation is whether appellees and the public acquired an easement by prescription over a road located upon land belonging to appellant, F. A. Weigel, Jr. Appellees instituted suit in the Woodruff Chancery Court, asserting that the road, known as the Tobe Eoad, had been used by the general public for a period of time in excess of 30 years, but that appellants, during 1967, constructed a barricade across the road, preventing appellees and the general public from traveling same. The barricaded road, according to appellant was a “new” road,…