Card v. Cunningham

— The bill in this cause, filed by the appellant against the appellee, seeks to abate a public nuisance effected by the act of the appellee in placing a wire fence within the confines of a public roadway, which, the appellant, insists, had long become established by prescription. The chancellor denied the complainant any relief; it being his opinion that appellee’s fence did not obstruct the space previously actually used for road purposes. The chancellor expressly declined to decide whether the line in question was a public road, and, in consequence, whether the complainant would have been…