Reed v. Wright

OPINION

Opinion by

Chief Justice MORRISS.

Two roads diverged in the east Texas piney woods. In 1985, one of them, Goff Road, had been declared public. The other, Cherry Lane, 1 the subject of this appeal and formerly the only way the public could access Goff Road, has now been declared private by the trial court after a nonjury trial between appellants, Pete and Clara Reed, and appellee, Paulette Wright. The uncontradicted evidence shows that, though Cherry Lane has not been heavily traveled, 2 the public used it for many years — at least twenty-five years before either party entered the…