HARTSOCK v. POWELL


99 S.E.2d 581 (1957)

199 Va. 320

J. C. HARTSOCK v. H. C. POWELL and Lucille Powell.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

September 6, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George M. Warren, Jr., Bristol (Warren & Warren, Bristol, on brief), for appellant.

M. E. Burson, Bristol, for appellees.

Before HUDGINS, C. J., and EGGLSTON, SPRATLEY, BUCHANAN, MILLER, WHITTLE, and SNEAD, JJ.


BUCHANAN, Justice.

This suit was brought by the Powells to compel Hartsock, the appellant, to remove two gates which he had placed on his property across a private road leading from the Powell property westward through the land of Hartsock to a public road known as the old Bristol road, and to restrain Hartsock from obstructing the road in any manner in the future. Hartsock conceded in his answer that the Powells had a right to use this road as an established easement...

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