Swinford v. Roper

Appellee filed a complaint in the circuit court of Pope county seeking an injunction restraining appellants from interfering with the use by appellee of a certain roadway. It was claimed in the complaint that it was a public roadway and had become such by prescription.

Appellant Madge Roper is the owner of the south half of the northwest quarter and the east half of the southwest quarter and the east 55 acres of the west half of the southwest quarter of section 15 in that county. Across the north end of the last two described tracts there is and has been for many years a roadway about 20 feet…