Roach v. Smith

D. H. Smith filed his petition against J. R. Roach, with the Ordinary of Bulloch County, seeking to have obstructions removed from an alleged private way over the land of the defendant. The petitioner described the private way as leading from a public road on the east side of the defendant’s land in a westerly direction through the defendant’s land by the Moore cemetery and on to the mill house and mill pond of the plaintiff, and alleged that he had been in continuous and uninterrupted use of the same for more than 7 years, that it did not exceed 15 feet in width, and had been kept open and…