Jones v. Orem

PETERSON, Judge.

The appellees, Arthur and Betty Orem, initiated litigation in the lower court to determine whether the dirt road that they had been using as access to their property in rural Putnam County was a public road and whether it could be obstructed by gates and locks erected by two neighbors.

In 1928, an overhead electric power line was constructed which ran south from an east-west road, later to be designated State Road 26, in the settlement of Melrose in Putnam County. Shortly after the power line was constructed, pedestrians, horses, and vehicles began traversing the land under the…