State ex rel. Veale v. Paul

The opinion of the court was delivered by

DawsoN, J.:

This is one of a series of actions brought by the state to clear a public highway of encroachments which prevent and hinder the laying of a paved road in and near the village of Pauline, a few miles south of Topeka.

It appears that for some time prior to 1869 there was a public highway, sixty feet wide, on the section line running north and south on the west side of section 31, town 12, and on the west side of sections 6 and 7 in town 13, all in range 16, Shawnee county. In 1869 the section line thereabout was condemned and appropriated for a…