Bell v. Stroope

DUNAGAN, Chief Justice.

This suit was commenced in February 1972 by appellee, J. R. Stroope, against Ross Dean Childers, to determine whether a roadway between land owned by Stroope and Childers was a public roadway. In 1974 Childers sold a portion of the land in question to appellants, Julius L. Bell and wife, Joyce Bell, and Esther Pearl Bell. Prior to the sale by Childers to Bell the trial court had issued a temporary injunction against Childers restraining him from locking gates or otherwise interfering with Stroope’s use of the roadway until a final hearing could be had upon the merits.…