Cuillier v. Coffin

— The principal issue in this case is whether the defendants had a prescriptive right to use an orchard road along a portion of the south line of the plaintiffs’ property (east half of the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of a certain section which we will refer to as Section 29).

The plaintiffs asked that the defendants be enjoined from trespassing thereon and for damages to certain young fruit trees planted on or in close proximity to the orchard road.

The defendants, who owned the east half of the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of the same section, asserted a…