Armstrong v. Itawamba County

The two principal questions here presented for decision are: (1) whether or not a certain thoroughfare which traverses the lands of the appellants, and has been used by the traveling public generally for many years, has acquired the status of a public road so as to entitle the county to injunctive relief to compel the removal of obstructions therefrom, such as fences and gates placed across the same by the said landowners, when it does not appear that such traveled route has ever been designated as a public road by an order of the board of supervisors, so far as may affirmatively appear from…