Hartsock v. Powell

This suit was brought by the Powells to compel Hartsock, the appellant, to remove two gates which he had placed on his property across a private road leading from the Powell property westward through the land of Hartsock to a public road known as the old Bristol road, and to restrain Hartsock from obstructing the road in any manner in the future. Hartsock conceded in his answer that the Powells had a right to use this road as an established easement over his land, but asserted that it had always had gates on it; that the gates he had erected were necessary to the convenient and reasonable use…