Smith v. Gamble

MADDOX, Justice.

This appeal involves the question of whether a portion of the “Old Cahaba Road” in Dallas County was a “public road,” a “public easement” or a “private easement.”

Plaintiff-appellee, Margaret Anne Alison Gamble, filed her complaint against defendants, Harvey R. Smith, Vivian C. Smith, Jessie Lee Money, and Connie Money, in which she alleged that the defendants claimed a right to go over her lands to get to a public highway, and to use an old road on her land known as the “Old Cahaba Road.” Mrs. Gamble claimed that if the Old Cahaba Road was ever a public road, it had been…