Bledsoe County v. McReynolds

OPINION

FONES, Justice.

We granted Bledsoe County’s Rule eleven application to decide the controlling issue in this case, to-wit: whether property owners who improve a public road in the mistaken belief that it was a private road, are entitled to be reimbursed by the governmental entity responsible for maintenance of the road.

This suit was brought to require defendants to reopen Meadow Creek Road to public use. Defendants own land adjacent to Meadow Creek Road and responded by denying that it was a public road and asserting that if it was a public road, it had been abandoned. Alternatively, if…