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Real Property: Unpaved Road-River Access-Public Road
Staff Report//June 14, 2024//
Where plaintiffs filed suit seeking that an unpaved portion of a road that allowed access to a river be declared a public road, the trial court properly found that the road was a public road by common-law dedication and by prescriptive easement.
Judgment is affirmed.
Romano v. Adams (MLW No. 81645/Case No. SD37377 – 19 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Goodman, J.) Appealed from circuit court, Christian County, Johnson, J. (Bryan Ormsby Wade and Lauren Hunter Haskins, Springfield, for appellant) (Paul Forrester Sherman, John Wesley Housley and Nicholas Austin Fax, Springfield, for respondent).
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