Byington v. Bass

The bill in this cause was filed to enjoin the defendant, J. A. Bass, from closing a roadway which had been platted and laid out in a subdivision within or a part of the town of St. Elmo in Hamilton county, and which was adjacent or beneficial as a way of egress and ingress to the complainants who had purchased certain of the lots of the subdivision. It was averred that Byington, the complainant, owned lots 2, 14, 15, 16 in Block 3 and lots 1 and 2 in Block 4, of the Ridgeway Land Company’s addition, and that his co-complainants owned certain other lots in the division. It is further averred…