Town of De Quincy v. Wood

Dedicated for the purpose of creating Yoakum Avenue in the Town of DeQuincy was a strip of ground seventy feet wide. The governing authority of the municipality, however, as was its privilege, did not utilize that entire width in constructing Yoakum Avenue’s paved roadway, curbing, guttering, arid sidewalks, all of which are considered to be parts of the street. Rather the street as it was actually improved, being that which is situated between the outer edges of the two sidewalks, measures only thirty-eight feet six inches. Thus there remains unused and unimproved thirty-one feet six inches…