Cotton v. May

MERRILL, Justice.

This appeal is from a decree in a declaratory judgment action in which plaintiffs-appellants sought to enjoin defendants from blocking a roadway and to have the roadway declared a private easement.

Appellants’ bill averred that they owned a farm of 160 acres and appellees owned a tract of land adjoining theirs; that they and their predecessors in title had had a roadway easement over appellees’ land for more than twenty-five years; that appellees had' blocked the roadway and forbade appellants to repair it; and that appellants were landlocked and had no way to get to a public…