Laugenour

This is an action instituted in the name and on behalf of the people of the state of California by the district attorney of Yolo County against the defendant for the purpose of securing a decree: That a certain strip of land situated in said county and specifically described in the complaint be declared a public highway; that certain obstructions alleged to have been placed and to be maintained on said land be abated or removed, “and that the defendant be enjoined from further maintaining said obstructions, or any of them upon, over, across or along said highway, and for costs of suits.”

The strip of land in dispute is described as being a roadway sixty feet wide, running west from the Knight’s Landing and Woodland Road, across Coward’s subdivision of the Marston Tract, and bounded on the north by lots 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17 and on the south by lots 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 of said Coward’s subdivision of the Marston Tract, according to the map or plat thereof on file and of record in the office of the county recorder of said county of Yolo. It is alleged in the complaint that said strip of land “is now, and for more than 24 years last past has been, a public highway,…