Hatch Bros. v. Black
Wyoming Supreme Court
Error to District Court, Uinta County; HoN. John R. Arnold, Judge. Action by the Hatch Bros. Company against Joseph Black, et al., to restrain defendants from obstructing an alleged highway and for damages. Defendants denied the ■existence of a public highway and cross-petitipned for damages for trespass on their lands by plaintiff. From a judgment awarding defendants damages, the plaintiff brings error.
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Error to District Court, Uinta County; HoN. John R. Arnold, Judge. Action by the Hatch Bros. Company against Joseph Black, et al., to restrain defendants from obstructing an alleged highway and for damages. Defendants denied the ■existence of a public highway and cross-petitipned for damages for trespass on their lands by plaintiff. From a judgment awarding defendants damages, the plaintiff brings error. The principal question involved in this appeal is whether •a road was established by the acceptance by the public of a grant or right of way for highway across public land. The section of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Brard, Justice.
This action was brought by the plaintiff in error against the defendants in error to restrain defendants • from obstructing an alleged highway, and for damages for preventing plaintiff from passing over said road with its sheep. Defendant denied that the road was'a-public highway, and filed a cross petition claiming damages for trespass on their lands by plaintiff. The case was tried to a-jury, resulting in a verdict and judgment in favor of defendants and against *116plaintiff for $916.04 and costs, from which judgment plaintiff brings error.
It appears that on April 27, 1912,…
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