Brant v. Plumer

Plaintiff alleges that the highway in question has been continuously and constantly used by the public for a period of more than twenty years, with the knowledge and consent of the owners of the land over which it passes; and that it is the shortest, and at times the only passable, route between his farm and the town at which he and his neighbors do their trading and marketing; and that defendant unlawfully obstructed said highway by constructing fences across it, thereby excluding plaintiff and the public from using it. And the special injury which he claims to have sustained was the…