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27 Mo. App. 541

State v. Scott

Missouri Court of Appeals

Decided November 7, 1887

Missouri Court of Appeals · decided 1887-11-07

G-eo. W. Dunn, Judge The case is stated in the opinion. I. The court found the defendant guilty after •giving the following declaration of law: “If the court, sitting as a jury, believe from the evidence that the road which defendant is charged with obstructing was established in 1855, upon the petition of George B. White and others, which called for the line between Susan Craig and George B. White, and that, in pursuance of said petition, the county court of Clinton county…

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently June 1908

2 state decisions

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Reversed and defendant discharged · Decided 1887-11-07

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Ellison, J.

¶1This was a prosecution begun before a justice of the peace on information, for obstructing a public road. Defendant was convicted and appealed to the circuit court, where he was again convicted.

¶2Without going into a detailed analysis of the testimony, I will say that the record before us shows the road charged to have befen obstructed was not the original road as established by the county court, but is one made by defendant’s grantors setting in their fence; that the alleged obstruction was by defendant moving the fence out on or near the line where it stood before it was moved in. There is no evidence to justify a finding of a dedication, and as the land was not used for the space of ten years it could not have become a road by user.

¶3The judgment should, therefore, be reversed and the defendant discharged.

All concur.
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