McKim v. Carre

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

In 1878 Thomas Harding owned the southeast quarter of a section of land, and Martha Carre owned the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of the same section. A public highway followed the south line of the section. Harding and Mrs. Carre made an arrangement by which she was permitted to use a strip of ground twenty feet wide, lying just east of the half-section line, in going and coming between her place and this highway. She so used it untii she sold the property to her son, T. L. Carre, in 1899, after which he continued such use. In…