Edgar v. Stubbs

George Rose Smith, Justice.

This is a dispute between adjoining landowners about an access road to the appellees’ property, which lies east of that owned by the appellants. In 1978 the appellees brought this suit to establish their right to use the road, which begins at a county road to the west and runs across the appellants’ land and across the appellees’ land. The issue in the trial court was whether the appellees and their predecessors in title have acquired a prescriptive right to use the road. The chancellor upheld the prescriptive right, fixing the width of the road at 20 feet. The…