Wilkins v. Barnes
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 67 — OBDINABY If any dedication has ever been made to the public of the ground claimed as a highway, there is nothing to show that it ever was accepted by the constituted representative of the public, the county court. Without that acceptance of record in some definite form, the alleged dedication amounts to nothing.
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Case 67 — OBDINABY If any dedication has ever been made to the public of the ground claimed as a highway, there is nothing to show that it ever was accepted by the constituted representative of the public, the county court. Without that acceptance of record in some definite form, the alleged dedication amounts to nothing. (Elliott v. Treadway, 10 B. Mon., 27; Bowman v. Wickliffe, 15 lb., 98-; 8 Grattan, 636; Gedge v. Commonwealth, 9 Bush, 64.) 1. Appellees have a prescriptive right of way over the road, and the court committed no error in adjudging them entitled thereto. 2. A dedication may…
1Opinion of the Court
-JUDGE HABGIS
delivered the opinion op the court.
The appellees were sued by the appellant. for trespass, ■which he averred was commmitted by them upon his lands.
They answered, and by way of confession and avoidance, admitted the entry, but alleged a right of way in the public over the lands in question, which they, as citizens, claimed the right to use alone on the ground that it is a public road.
The evidence tends strongly to establish a grant or right by prescription in the appellees to the use of the alleged way. But after careful scrutiny, we find that the pleadings do not present any…
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