Hill v. Miller

The petition of J. H. Miller, the plaintiff, addressed to the ordinary, alleged substantially as follows: The defendant, John H. Hill, is the owner of certain described land, and the plaintiff has a private way leading from his, home through the land in possession of the defendant, and intersecting with a certain public road, the total length of which is about three fourths of a mile. The private way has been in constant and uninterrupted use of the plaintiff and was kept open and in repair by him on a permanent road-bed not over 15 feet wide for more than twenty-five years, and no legal…