Barnes v. Kent

HARWOOD, Justice.

The appellee Kent owns some seventeen hundred acres of land situated in Talladega County located within a rectangle of roads running north and south and east and west. U. S. Highway 231 is to the west of Kent’s property, and the Old Sylacauga Highway is to the east. Kent has access to his property on the north from a public highway. According to the allegations contained in his pleadings and proof, he has no access to the above mentioned public roads lying to the east and west of his property.

This suit is chiefly concerned, however, with Kent’s access to his property on the…