Sims v. Boyd

In an action to enjoin a proprietor from “placing any obstruction across or in” an alleged “private road” extending through his land and which plaintiff had used for more than seven years as his only way of ingress and egress to and from his home, and from “attempting to close up the same, and from interfering in any manner with the free and open use of the same by petitioner, his family, and the public,” the defendant admitted the existence of a footpath across his land, and alleged that he had recently purchased the land without notice of the existence of a private way, and that on the day…