REXROAT v. ABATTE

No. 3-87-0152.

163 Ill. App.3d 796 (1987)

516 N.E.2d 1050

WILLIAM G. REXROAT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MAURICE D. ABATTE, Highway Commissioner, Successor in Office, The Town of Emmet, Defendant-Appellee.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Third District.

Opinion filed December 10, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William G. Rexroat, of Colchester, appellant pro se.

Gayle Tronvig Carper, of Lucie, Slater & Carper, of Macomb, for appellee.


Judgment affirmed.

JUSTICE WOMBACHER delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff, William Rexroat, brought suit in 1978 seeking a declaratory judgment setting forth his right of access across an old roadway crossing a wooded pasture owned by Russell Thorell, the named defendant. The roadway serviced a small field on Rexroat's land. Rexroat asserted that accessibility to the field from other than the old roadway was limited, because a stream running through...

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