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OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS AUSTIN
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Eionorablolured 0. Jaye County AttC$nOy, Coamnohe County Comdnoho,Texaa'~
Dear Sir:
Puestlng the oplulon or thta de$artment'on therein reads, In part, as r0u0w6:
in we r0r manyyears.,. Court the Compliaaloners' tollowing order;~ hat a p&b116 mad of the feet wide be opened aa ing at a point on the Corn- ordhlp road jwt East or the af th0 ho- or N. a. m0k8, aeterly direotion following the meandering8 of the said South Leon through the land of C. D. Corby to the wed line or the P. W. LevlsaJrland'ithenoe In a ~ortheaeterlgdfreotion through the P. W. Lerlaay land to thq Iiorthwestoorner of the land or l&e. Gandy. Theme in an East- erly direotion between the kwleay land and the Oandy .landto the Northeast oorner of the Oandg'l&nd; thence in a northerly dlreo-
tlon tbrou&h the P. W. &evlsay lexidto an intermotion with the Gomanoheend Cloldthwaiteroad at the Junction or the said Comanche and Coldthwzilte road with - the Co&&he and the Weuburg~road. Thie mad i8 to be opened and fiinoedwithout expenee.to. the oounty. Thie.road la opened aa desoribad on the agreunmnt or all partie oonoerned that th4- gater on l mQI@ mr hroadttioughthelande ood of Q. D.Goaby, 3. D. firrer end P. 1. Leri- #ay.be opened end remain open on the 8tlpulatlonthat parties Interestedin the we or thl8 neighborhood road r*nit?h atook gap&or 8elf oloming gtw ae the waw. may require.* . . *&e ,&boreorder doerrtit reveal the'looation OS the.tuo roads with rererenoeto dirsotlon. I am attaohing a plat hereto givlug In rough outltne - tha reletlYe direOtiOn.Oreaoh road. The quse$ion I il+re that your ?ffloe .parsupon'is thllra
I: "mOXl the Comdesioners* court 0r th18 oounty aoted'upon a petition auly preeentsdto it ed'os- kablg8hed~the road draignated aa the 40 ipo>~mad, and.in the same order daorwd that anotha? road then in use referred to In the ordir ae the *nefghborhbod*road running through, thq Zand of . wits named in the order be melntainedwith atook gap@ or self oloslng gate8 - did thla order establish the,.#04-oalled; %efghborhooda road as,a public road under'tha laws of this State."
btiele 6908, Vornon*s Annotated Civil Statutes, provides:
"813 pub110 road8 and highways no? dfaoon- tinued thet'have heretoforepeon lald out and emtabllahedagreeably to law are hereby declared to bo publio road&"
Referring to Article 6702, suma, It Is etated in Texas Jurisprudenoe,Vol.~Zl..pago 684: *Thi &tuti relating to county road8 raiere to eil public roads and highways not disoontlntied 663. Eonorable FEed 0. Jaye.,page S
and established agreeably to law. This has been &n&trued to mean a road establishedby ,,tha oonmiaatonera~ oourt. The dxpreaelon *publio zoad* $n other atetutea is generally oonatrue~~to inelude nonstatutoryas wall as -rrta*utvpy t&a but *pub110aounty road* d@fir'8"+ road rhioh haa~b~anmeatabllahad by 8tathtotiy proomdln@. (5W 'StephemolcY. St,.Louis SouthwesternEiallway Oo"tp"p, ,164Sr W. Ugb. Nrror Reruaad.) . I
~orallJ.apaaking, andar rtatutorydireotlon comdaaionera~ &oertr,olatiaityroada ar of tha rfrat, aaaond or third ~laaa. (Arti- 010 6704, ~erbon9a Annotated Cltil Statutes) Neighborhoodroads air8di8ttiagari8ha& from other roads %n that thy are