Bowles v. Chapman

The chancellor dismissed the bill of the complainant Bowles. The Court of Appeals affirmed the chancellor’s decree, and the cause is here on petition for certiorari.

The complainant filed his bill setting out therein that he was the owner of certain land in the Fourth Civil District of Shelby County and had so owned this land for more than thirty years, and during* all this time he had used a neighborhood road running* north from his land through the land of the defendants to a well-established county pike or road, which lies north of the land of the defendants ; that said user had been for…