Steahr v. Clark

O’QUINN', Justice.

Appellees brought this suit to enjoin appellants from fencing and otherwise obstructing a roadway twenty feet wide adjacent to the tracts of land belonging to the several parties and claiming a prescriptive right to use the roadway for purposes of ingress and egress.

Based on a jury’s answers to special issues, the trial court entered judgment for appellees, enjoining appellants from obstructing the roadway and ordering removal of obstructions erected by them. 1

It appears undisputed that the roadway in question was used as far back as 1925 by a large number of persons living…