Duggan v. Cox

Hall, Justice.

The question in this case relates to the jurisdiction of the ordinary of Baldwin county to remove obstructions from a private way existing by prescription over land that was once a part of the commons given to the city of Milledgeville, but which had been sold by it to the defendant, who had converted it into a farm, and in so doing had fenced it, and thereby closed the way leading from the homes of the plaintiffs to the city and other public roads and streets, they having been in the constant and uninterrupted use of this way for more than seven years, without any legal step…