Legal Opinion · Dissent
Raney v. Gunn
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided January 12, 1953No. 4-9805Published
1DissentEd. F. MoFaddin, Justice
My dissent is because I am unable to find any way to keep from applying Act No. 666 of 1923. That Act was captioned: “An Act to Prohibit the Acquiring of Public Property by Adverse Possession, and for Other Purposes”; and, as now found in § 37-109, et seq., Ark. Stats., reads in part:
“Hereafter no title or right of possession to any public thoroughfare, road, highway or public park, or any portion thereof, shall or can be acquired by adverse possession or adverse occupancy thereof, and the right of the public or of the proper authorities of any county to open or have opened any such public…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Porter v. HuffSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1924
- Mount v. DillonSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1940
- Dorado v. Ritchie Grocery Co.Supreme Court of Arkansas · 1907
- Kennedy v. CrouseSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1949
- Town of Madison v. BondSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1918
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