Meadows v. Meadows

This was a suit in chancery by A. W. Meadows, Sr., against A. W. Meadows, Jr., to enjoin the latter from erecting gates across a private right of way owned by the complainant. The trial court granted a preliminary injunction which it perpetuated by its final decree.

Joel Meadows, in his lifetime, owned land on both sides of the Abingdon-Saltville road, which, upon his death, descended to his three sons, A. W. Meadows, Sr., James Meadows and John L. Meadows. It does not appear when Joel Meadows died, but his sons *100made partition of the lands between themselves in 1895. For a long time prior…