Gorman v. State Highway Commission

SHANGLER, Presiding Judge.

This appeal comes from a judgment adverse to the Gormans on their petition to declare that the State Highway Commission abandoned a strip of land which abuts on frontage owned by the Gormans and to quiet title to that real estate in them.

The appeal argues that as a matter of law clear and cogent evidence proved nonuser and abandonment of Old Oliver Street Road and consequent reversion of title to the Gormans. We do not reach the merits. An antecedent question of jurisdiction, unnoticed by the parties, determines this appeal.

The land which the Gormans seek to have…