Watkins v. Country Club

This was a proceediug, before the ordinary of Richmond county, to have certain obstructions removed from an alleged private way. The original petition made a case, in behalf of the petitioner, of title by prescription to the way, by. reason of twenty years continuous and uninterrupted user thereof. The respondent to the rule nisi demurred to the petition, upon various grounds, two of which have been argued here, viz.: because it was not alleged that the way was ever laid out by the petitioner, and because it was not alleged that the owners of the land over which the right of way was claimed…