Newsome v. Morris

JONES, Justice.

This is an appeal from a declaratory judgment entered in favor of the plaintiffs, James Morris and others, which held that the property purchased by the defendant, Mary Newsome, was intended to be dedicated to the public at large. The plaintiffs are all owners of property within a subdivision in Baldwin County that abuts the Gulf of Mexico. They sought a judgment declaring that certain properties within the subdivision, which they claimed had been represented to them at the times of their respective purchases to be public rights-of-way or accesses to the Gulf, had in fact been…