Gore v. Blanchard

The action is tort to recover damages which the plaintiff claims to have suffered from not being allowed to use *237a certain way, which he claims was a public or common way, during the winter of 1920-21. At the close of the plaintiff’s evidence the court, on motion of defendant, directed a verdict in his favor to which the plaintiff saved an exception. The plaintiff urges several reasons why the case should have been submitted to the jury. His chief claim is that as against the land owner, the defendant, the public had acquired the right, by dedication and by prescription, to use the way in…