Taggart v. Highway Board for the North Latah County Highway District

SHEPARD, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of appellant Taggart declaring that a road is public and has not been abandoned as a public road by the respondent highway district, and which judgment denied an award of attorney fees to Taggart. Tag-gart appeals from the denial of attorney fees, and the highway district cross-appeals asserting that the road had been abandoned and no longer constituted a “public road.”

There is no substantial dispute regarding the following facts. The road in question here was ordered open as Public Road 460 by action of the Latah County…