Wachter v. Fowler’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 171 W. Va. 584 - Conley v. Spillers · 164 W. Va. 654 - Burks v. McNeel · 178 W. Va. 659 - McGlone v. Superior Trucking Co., Inc. · 150 W. Va. 709 - State Road Commission v. Oakes · 144 W. Va. 575 - Baker v. Hamilton
Most-quoted passages
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“In order that a road, by virtue of Section 3, Article 1, Chapter 17, Code, 1931, shall be conclusively presumed to be established as a public road, it must have been used by the public for a period of ten years or more and public moneys or labor, duly authorized by a public agency or official empowered to maintain, repair or accept such road, must be expended on it; and the occasional expenditure of public money or the occasional performance of public labor on such road, which is not so authorized, even though such road has been used by the public for ten years or more, does not satisfy the requirements of the statute or render effective the statutory presumption of its establishment as a public road.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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