Dedication of Land for Highway—What Constitutes—Platting of Land and Recording op Map.—The survey, platting, marking, and mapping of lands, delineating a strip through them for purposes of a highway, and the filing of the map with the county recorder, constitutes an offer of dedication of the roadway delineated on the map as a public highway.

Id.—Dedication by Vendee—Ratification by Vendor.—The fact that the platting and the recording of the map were done by the person who held a contract for the purchase of the lands, instead of by the owners thereof, is not material, if the owners thereafter make conveyances by reference to the map and the highway outlined thereon.

Id.—Offer and Acceptance of Dedication—Manner of Manifestation.—The offer of the owner of land to dedicate a highway, and the acceptance of the offer by the public, may be manifested in many different ways.

Id.—Consummation of Dedication—When Accomplished—If a binding offer to dedicate land for a highway has been made by the owners, .and before revocation thereof an acceptance by the public is manifested, either by a formal act of the authorities, or by habitual user by the public a sufficient length of time clearly to show that the way has been thus recognized, used, and accepted as a public Mghway, the dedication is fully consummated.

Id.—Constructive Dedication—Sale of Lots With Reference to Map.—Where the owner of land has platted it, laid out streets or roadways, and has sold the land by reference to such plat, or where he has a map or plat made, and, selling the smaller subdivisions, has described them as bounded by a road laid out through the larger tract, a constructive dedication arises.

Ib.—Common-law Dedication—Estoppel Against Owner.—Independently of statute, the use of a street by the public for a reasonable length of time, where the intention of the owner to dedicate is clearly shown, is sufficient, without any specific action by the municipal authorities, either by resolution or by repairs or improvements. A commonrlaw dedication operates against the dedicator by estoppel, and this estoppel may be invoked by or on behalf of the public at large as well as by the municipal authorities of the city.

Id.-—Implied or Constructive Dedication—Facts and Circumstances Showing.—Where the owners of a tract of land caused it to be surveyed and subdivided into smaller tracts with a roadway running through the larger tract upon which the smaller subdivisions abut, recorded the map, made sales of many of such smaller tracts according to the plat, and the purchasers thereafter, for at least twenty years, continuously use the roadway without objection, a dedication is thereby established, notwithstanding no express acceptance was attempted by the county authorities until about eighteen years after the recordation of the map, and the county never worked the road or otherwise recognized it as a public highway, and at the time of tne filing of the map both ends of the roadway were inclosed, and a portion of the roadway was cultivated and used for pasturage by purchasers of the tracts.

Id.—Width op Highway—Whether Traveled Way is Conclusive Thereof.—-Where there is a finding or indisputable evidence that a roadway dedicated to the use of the public is, as so dedicated, of a certain width, the fact that the main travel has customarily been confined to narrower limits than the width of the road as marked out and dedicated is not conclusive of the width of the road.