Williams v. Smith

Ames, C.

The plaintiffs are the owners and in possession of lands lying on both sides of a certain section line. A section-line road on and along such section line, and on the plaintiffs’ land, was duly opened in 1879, and continuously open to travel until 1892. In the year last mentioned a large bridge on the road was destroyed, whereby the public use of the road was interrupted. Afterward, in the same year, the then owner of the said lands, now belonging to the plaintiffs, and their immediate grantor, erected substantial fences across that portion of the boundaries of the land crossed by the…