Melton v. Donnell

By the bill complainants seek to enjoin the defendant from erecting gates across a road in which they have acquired an easement. We quote from the answer as follows: “complainants have an easement over said road and acquired the same by prescription of fifty years or more.”

The chancellor held that defendant had a right to place gates across said road, notwithstanding this long adverse user by complainants without gates; and held, further, that this was not a proper cause in which to weigh the relative convenience or inconvenience of the parties, and dismissed the bill.

The Court of Appeals…