Hoover v. Smith

John A. Fogleman, Justice.

Appellants and appellees are adjoining property owners, the lands of appellants lying east of those of appellees. Both tracts are bounded on the north by Little River. Appellants acquired their property in 1963. Their predecessors in title had owned it since 1929. Appellees have owned their property since 1937.

This controversy involves the right of appellants to continue to use a roadway across the lands of appellees as a means of ingress and egress. This way enters appellees’ property at the extreme southwest corner thereof where it intersects a county road. It…