Big Horn County Commissioners v. Hinckley

593 P.2d 573 (1979)

BIG HORN COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, Appellant (Respondent below),

v.

DeVere T. HINCKLEY, Appellee (Petitioner below).

No. 4987.

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

April 17, 1979.

Robert A. Gish, Big Horn County Atty., Basin, for appellant.

C.S. Hinckley, of Hinckley & Hinckley, Basin, and John W. Davis, of Davis & Donnell, Worland, for appellee.

Before RAPER, C.J., McCLINTOCK, THOMAS and ROSE, JJ., and MAIER, District Judge.[*]

ROSE, Justice.

This appeal questions the ability of the appellant, Big Horn County Commissioners, to establish a county road under the common-law doctrine of prescription…