Legal Opinion
Burnett v. Munoz
Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama
Decided December 13, 2002No. 2010890PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Miguel A. Munoz and Bernice Blackwell Munoz sued coterminous landowners Milford W. Burnett and Evelyn Burnett. In their complaint, the Munozes sought a judgment declaring a strip of land located between their property and that of the Burnetts to be a public road. For the purposes of this decision, we will refer to the strip of property at issue as a "road"; in doing so, we are not deciding whether the road was a public or a private road.
The Burnetts answered the Munozes' complaint and denied that the road was a public road. The trial court conducted a hearing at which ore tenus evidence was…
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- Boles v. AuterySupreme Court of Alabama · 1989
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