Case ID: ga-app_33/html/0166-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Luke, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

15952.
    RHODES et al. v. WINGFIELD ORCHARDS INCORPORATED
    The evidence being in conflict as to the facts upon which depended the right of the applicants to removal of the' obstruction from the alleged private way, and no error of law appearing, the judgment in favor of the defendant must stand.
    Decided December 9, 1924.
    Certiorari; from Richmond superior court—Judge A. L. Franklin. August 27, 1924.
    
      Pierce Brothers, for plaintiffs.
    
      Callaway & Howard, for defendant.
   Luke, J.

In this case a proceeding under section 825 of the Civil Code (1910) was instituted for the removal of an obstruction from an alleged private way over which the' plaintiffs claimed an easement by prescription under section 824. The ordinary rendered a judgment in favor of the defendant, a certiorari was overruled, and the plaintiffs excepted. “Before an applicant can have obstructions removed from a private way, he must not only show that there has been an uninterrupted use for more than seven years, but he must show that it is not more than fifteen feet wide, and that he has kept it open and in repair, and that it is the same fifteen feet originally appropriated.” Collier v. Farr, 81 Ga. 749 (7 S. E. 860). No error of law appearing, and the evidence being conflicting, the judgment of the court below must stand.

Judgment affirmed.

Broyles, C. J., and Bloodworth, J., concur.