Owens v. Cantrell

Stukes, Justice.

The plaintiff in this action owns and lives upon a farm in Spartanburg County which is separated from the nearby paved highway by the tenant-occupied property of the defendant. Connecting plaintiff’s home with the Spartanburg- Fingerville highway, and for many years affording the only means of ingress and egress, is a road, fifteen or sixteen feet wide, which runs across defendant’s land for a distance of about four hundred yards. Numerous neighbors, several of whom were octogenarians, and some former occupants of plaintiff’s property, testified without exception that the road…